linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] of: introduce of_graph_get_remote

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Message-ID: <CAL_JsqLEgY4RNKP6Z9vqVZWA0Chj7=Fr6rHudjxDJ+rAYURorg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 07:41:35 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Xinliang Liu <z.liuxinliang@...ilicon.com>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
        Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@...ilicon.com>,
        Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        Mali DP Maintainers <malidp@...s.arm.com>,
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        Rongrong Zou <zourongrong@...il.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] of: introduce of_graph_get_remote_node

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 09:36:31PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>> The OF graph API leaves too much of the graph walking to clients when
>> in many cases the driver doesn't care about accessing the port or
>> endpoint nodes. The drivers typically just want the device connected via
>> a particular graph connection. of_graph_get_remote_node provides this
>> functionality.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>
> Just a quick procedural comment: drm-misc for 4.11 is closed already, but
> if we can get this core patch into 4.11 still then that would avoid
> cross-tree sync pains in 4.12 ...

Right, I was thinking the same thing.

Rob