linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board

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Message-ID: <20191115053201.GA800105@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:32:01 +0800
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board_info()

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> This allows the of_devlink feature to work across i2c devices too. This
> avoid unnecessary probe deferrals of i2c devices, defers consumers of
> i2c devices till the i2c devices probe, and allows i2c drivers to
> implement sync_state() callbacks.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
> ---
> The of_devlink feature is present in driver-core-next branch. It started
> off with [1] but it has been improving since then.
> 
> [1] -- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20190904211126.47518-1-saravanak@google.com/
> 
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Wolfram, I can take this through my tree now if you have no objections
to this.

thanks,

greg k-h