Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 1/7] driver core: Add support for linking devices during device addition | From | Frank Rowand <> | Date | Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:36:37 -0700 |
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On 8/20/19 3:10 PM, Saravana Kannan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 9:25 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 8/19/19 5:00 PM, Saravana Kannan wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 8:38 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
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>>> >>> 3. The supplier info doesn't always need to come from a firmware. So I >>> don't want to limit it to that? >> >> If you can find another source of topology info, then I would expect >> that another set of fwnode_operations functions would be created >> for the info source. > > The other source could just be C files in the kernel. Using fwnodes > for that would be hacky. But let's sort (1) and (2) out first. >
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Just a piece of trivia. I got curious enough about this to search. There is a third type of fwnode, software nodes.
See commit 59abd83672f70cac4b6bf9b237506c5bc6837606 for a description.
-Frank
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