Re: [PATCH 1/2] input: clps711x-keypad: Switch to use syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle()

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>Воскресенье, 23 декабря 2018, 23:10 +03:00 от Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 10:28:50PM +0300, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
>> >Воскресенье, 23 декабря 2018, 21:15 +03:00 от Dmitry Torokhov < dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx >:
>> >
>> >On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 06:54:34PM +0300, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
>> >> As mentioned in the patch bdb0066df96e ("mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon
>> >> interface from platform devices"), we need to switch to using the
>> >> syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle() function. This patch makes this change.
>> >> 
>> >> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <  shc_work@xxxxxxx >
>> >> ---
>> >>  drivers/input/keyboard/clps711x-keypad.c | 3 +--
>> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >> 
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/clps711x-keypad.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/clps711x-keypad.c
>> >> index e319f74..f7f49da 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/clps711x-keypad.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/clps711x-keypad.c
>> >> @@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ static int clps711x_keypad_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> >>  if (!priv)
>> >>  return -ENOMEM;
>> >> 
>> >> -priv->syscon =
>> >> -syscon_regmap_lookup_by_compatible("cirrus,ep7209-syscon1");
>> >> +priv->syscon = syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle(np, "syscon");
>> >
>> >Do we care about compatibility with old DTSes that do not have syscon
>> >phandle in the keypad descriptor?
>> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> There are no users for this driver in current kernel.
>> The patch for adding bindings (with syscon phandle) is submitted by me recently.
>
>Alexander,
>
>The argument that there are no users in kernel works well for adjusting
>or removing platform data, but does not work for DTS, as it is supposed
>to be separate from the kernel. The original binding is from 2014 and
>there might be users of the driver that will not be aware of the change.
>If anything, if there were users of the driver in DTSes shipped with the
>kernel, we could make argument that we adjusted them to the new schema
>and all should be well, but will all users being external that is not
>the case.
>
>I would love to just apply the patch as is, but I am afraid we need to
>keep compatibility with older DTSes.

Ok, will it be better if we keep the syscon_regmap_lookup_by_compatible()
call as a fallback method for getting syscon phandle?

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