linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/12] drivers: base: Unified device connection lookup

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:28:23 +0200
From:   Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        USB <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] drivers: base: Unified device connection lookup

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:21:15PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 16-02-18 12:00, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > From: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Several frameworks - clk, gpio, phy, pmw, etc. - maintain
> > > lookup tables for describing connections and provide custom
> > > API for handling them. This introduces a single generic
> > > lookup table and API for the connections.
> > > 
> > > The motivation for this commit is centralizing the
> > > connection lookup, but the goal is to ultimately extract the
> > > connection descriptions also from firmware by using the
> > > fwnode_graph_* functions and other mechanisms that are
> > > available.
> > 
> > > +void *__device_find_connection(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
> > 
> > > +                              void *data,
> > > +                              void *(*match)(struct devcon *con, int ep,
> > > +                                             void *data))
> > 
> > Perhaps swap them, since data is dependent parameter to match.
> 
> The pattern of having the data before the callback function is not
> unheard of in the kernel. Changing this now feels like needless
> churn, but if there is a strong preference for this then we can
> fix this for v2.
> 
> Heikki, do you want me to take care of minor changes like this for v2?

Yes, please do if you don't mind. I would appreciate it.

I'll be on vacation next week.


Thanks,

-- 
heikki