Re: [resend PATCH] driver core: property: support for generic property

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On Friday 13 March 2015 15:10:38 Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Monday, January 26, 2015 03:17:40 PM Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > That doesn't seem to go in the right direction to be honest.
> >
> > Actually, having introduced struct fwnode_handle, we should perhaps try to
> > replace both of_node and acpi_node with a single struct fwnode_handle pointer
> > and then add a new fwnode_type for the "pdata" stuff.
> 
> I agree on this, but it will be a lot of work to convert...
> 
> > If you don't want to deal with of_node, which I can understand easily, it
> > may be worth trying with acpi_node alone at this point and once you have
> > the fwnode_handle pointer, you might use it for both ACPI and "pdata"?
> >
> > Grant, Arnd, I wonder what you think?
> 
> That makes sense, and we can populate the fwnode_handle even when
> using DT. That will allow a transition period to move everyone over to
> the fwnode_handle.

Agreed on both as well.

	Arnd
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