linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 00/12] Device property improvements, add %pfw format specifier

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Message-ID: <20191008122459.z62tk5xqpqhfifxl@pathway.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2019 14:24:59 +0200
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     rafael@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/12] Device property improvements, add %pfw format
 specifier

On Thu 2019-10-03 15:32:07, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This set adds functionality into the device property API (counting a
> node's parents as well as obtaining its name) in order to support printing
> fwnode names using a new conversion specifier "%pfw". The names that are
> produced are equivalent to its OF counterpart "%pOF" on OF systems for the
> two supported modifiers ("f" and "P").
> 
> Printing a node's name is something that's been available on OF for a long
> time and if something is converted to device property API (such as the
> V4L2 fwnode framework) it always got removed of a nice feature that was
> sometimes essential in debugging. With this set, that no longer is the
> case.

The patchset is ready to go upstream from my POV.

Should it go via a tree that maintains the device property API
or via printk.git? Both possibilities work for me.

Best Regards,
Petr