On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 11:43:26AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 02:19:01PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > > From: Sunil V L <sunilvl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > fwnode_get_reference_args() which is common for both DT and ACPI passes > > a property name like #mbox-cells which needs to be fetched from the > > reference node to determine the number of arguments needed for the > > property. However, the ACPI version of this function doesn't support > > this and simply ignores the parameter passed from the wrapper function. > > Add support for dynamically finding number of arguments by reading the > > nargs property value. Update the callers to pass extra parameter. > > I don't like this (implementation). Agree. > It seems that we basically have two parameters which values are duplicating > each other. This is error prone API and confusing in the cases when both are > defined. If you want property, add a new API that takes const char *nargs > and relies on the property be present. Also this is not really needed for ACPI case because it has types so it can distinguish references from integer. Having separate property for this just makes things more complex than they need to be IMHO.
