linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] ACPI / property: Allow holes in reference properties

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0jGCrwB+mC6r-DVo-BYmLX-5WeKMEUnZ8NNmLsYCB2mfg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:46:26 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] ACPI / property: Allow holes in reference properties

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> DT allows holes or empty phandles for references. This is used for example
> in SPI subsystem where some chip selects are native and others are regular
> GPIOs. In ACPI _DSD we currently do not support this but instead the
> preceding reference consumes all following integer arguments.
>
> For example we would like to support something like the below ASL fragment
> for SPI:
>
>   Package () {
>       "cs-gpios",
>       Package () {
>           ^GPIO, 19, 0, 0, // GPIO CS0
>           0,               // Native CS
>           ^GPIO, 20, 0, 0, // GPIO CS1
>       }
>   }
>
> The zero in the middle means "no entry" or NULL reference. To support this
> we change acpi_data_get_property_reference() to take firmware node and
> num_args as argument and rename it to __acpi_node_get_property_reference().
> The function returns -ENOENT if the given index resolves to "no entry"
> reference and -ENODATA when there are no more entries in the property.
>
> We then add static inline wrapper acpi_node_get_property_reference() that
> passes MAX_ACPI_REFERENCE_ARGS as num_args to support the existing
> behaviour which some drivers have been relying on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>

The patch looks good to me and I don't see any reason to defer it, so
I'm queuing it up for the next ACPI pull request.

Thanks,
Rafael