On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:10 AM Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 01:32:01PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote: > > > This allows the of_devlink feature to work across i2c devices too. This > > > avoid unnecessary probe deferrals of i2c devices, defers consumers of > > > i2c devices till the i2c devices probe, and allows i2c drivers to > > > implement sync_state() callbacks. > > > > > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > The of_devlink feature is present in driver-core-next branch. It started > > > off with [1] but it has been improving since then. > > > > > > [1] -- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20190904211126.47518-1-saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > > > drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c | 1 + > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > Wolfram, I can take this through my tree now if you have no objections > > to this. > > What would be the advantage? Of the patch or of him picking it up? Advantage of the patch is in the commit text. Details of of_devlink are also provided in the link I gave earlier. Advantage of Greg picking it up: This patch will get tested/seen with the set of changes (of_devlink) with which it'll have the biggest functional impact. -Saravana
