Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: mockup: Allow probing from device tree

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 6:29 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2018-09-05 15:26 GMT+02:00 Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx>:

> > +               ret = of_property_read_u32(node, "nr-gpios", &nr_gpios);
>
> In addition to what Linus already said: I think this is a good moment
> to get rid of the platform data structure and instead use device
> properties, what do you think?

If you're thinking of fwnode that will not work with static platform devices
(such as add with board files or other random platform_device_register() etc)
The fwnode concept only works with DT and ACPI.

Yours,
Linus Walleij