Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] Support children for legacy device properties | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2018 22:05:24 +0200 |
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On 9/17/2018 8:15 PM, Dmitry Torokhov 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 don't have any objections against this series.
Thanks, Rafael
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