[PATCH 0/2] device property: firmware node type for platform data

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On Saturday, March 28, 2015 02:05:19 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Patches [1-2/3] add support for properties provided in a "pdata way"
> roughly along the lines of the Heikki's patch at
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5709461/
> 
> but using the fwnode field in struct device introduced by one of my
> previous patches (currently in linux-next).
> 
> Patch [3/3] does one more interesting thing on top of that, but is mostly
> for discussion.  Namely, it changes the behavior of the unified device
> properties API to fall back to the "built-in" properties when it cannot
> find the requested data in the stuff provided by the platform firmware.
> 
> Currently, that patch would introduce an artificial difference between ACPI
> and DT, because DT uses the of_node pointer in struct device won't use the
> set_primary_fwnode() thing introduced buy the [1/3].  However, I have an
> idea about how that can be worked around, but more on that in the changelog
> of patch [3/3].

So to make some progress here I'd like to apply patches [1-2/3] (which I'm going
to resend shortly) if there are no objections.

Thanks,
Rafael

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