On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 03:40:43PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:17:44PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 09:38:07PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > It is possible to store references to software nodes in the same fashion as
> > > other static properties, so that users do not need to define separate
> > > structures:
> > >
> > > const struct software_node gpio_bank_b_node = {
> > > .name = "B",
> > > };
> > >
> > > const struct property_entry simone_key_enter_props[] __initconst = {
> > > PROPERTY_ENTRY_U32("linux,code", KEY_ENTER),
> > > PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("label", "enter"),
> > > PROPERTY_ENTRY_REF("gpios", &gpio_bank_b_node, 123, GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW),
> > > { }
> > > };
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This looks really good to me. I'll wait for Andy's comments on the
> > idea, but to me it makes sense.
>
> Idea in general is fine. Though, taking into consideration, for example,
> drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c, the size of predefined structures bumps a lot.
> I think we always should keep a pointer. In this case we may not add another
> property type.
Yeah, you have a point.
thanks,
--
heikki
