linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] hwmon/ltc2990: Generalise DT to fwnode support

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUYpkkmhxwTu7MGm6NiMfYs9SqjLKRPazuSEjRgpRavyg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:32:46 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Max Staudt <max@...as.org>, Linux I2C <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        "Linux/m68k" <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] hwmon/ltc2990: Generalise DT to fwnode support

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:50 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:19:42AM +0200, Max Staudt wrote:
> > On 08/15/2019 02:58 PM, Max Staudt wrote:
> > > -   if (of_node) {
> > > -           ret = of_property_read_u32_array(of_node, "lltc,meas-mode",
> > > -                                            data->mode, 2);
> > > +   if (i2c->dev.of_node || i2c->dev.fwnode) {

I was just going to comment on this check...

> > One more idea, would it be better here to do the following?
> >
> >       if (device_property_present(i2c->dev, "lltc,meas-mode")) {
> >               ret = of_property_read_u32_array(of_node, "lltc,meas-mode",
> >                                                data->mode, 2);
> >       }
> >
> > I'm happy to prepare a patch if you wish to have this in - just let me know whether it should be on top of the last one, or instead of it.
>
> That would be semantically different. The property is currently mandatory.
> The above code would make it optional. This might work:
>
>         if (dev_fwnode(&i2c->dev)) {
>                 ret = device_property_read_u32_array(...);
>                 ...
>         }

Much better, thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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