On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:18 PM Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The generic device properties APIs are very helpful as they allow abstracting > away details of the platform (whether it is ACPI, device tree, or legacy board > file), so that individual driver does not need separate code paths to support > all variants. However there are drivers that currently can not use generic > device properties API as they need notion of children properties, for example > gpio_keys driver, that expects every button to be described as a sub-node of > main device. > > This patch series introduces notion of sub-nodes for static properties and ties > it up with GPIO lookup tables so that they are usable with sub-nodes as well. I like the idea. Though, I Cc'ed this to Mika and Sakari who might be interested to see and, perhaps, comment on it. > > Thanks. > > -- > Dmitry > -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
