Re: [PATCH 5/5] lib/vsprintf: Add %pfw conversion specifier for printing fwnode names

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Hi Andy,

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:55:57PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:39:47PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:13:53PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 08:17:46PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> 
> > > The patch series by Petr I mentioned takes care about OF case. But it doesn't
> > > have covered yours by obvious reasons.
> > 
> > Do you happen to have a pointer to it?
> 
> Petr, can you share what is the state of affairs with that series?
> 
> > The behaviour on others is different indeed, you're generally printing a
> > single item at a time. The question rather is, whether we want to be
> > compatible with %pOF going forward or not. I'd prefer that, so using the
> > fwnode API would be easier.
> 
> I would prefer to mimic %pOF and actually to deprecate it in favour of %pfw.
> But it's just mine opinion. I'm skeptical about getting support on it.

IMHO code that only deals with OF specifically is better to continue to use
%pOF. You'd have of_fwnode_handle() in places where you just had the name
of the node previously.

What could be done though is to unify the implementations; that's something
which the set does a little of already.

Cc Rob, too.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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