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Message-Id: <20200222014038.180923-6-saravanak@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:40:38 -0800
From:   Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 5/5] of: property: Delete of_devlink kernel commandline option

With the addition of fw_devlink kernel commandline option, of_devlink is
redundant and not useful anymore. So, delete it.

Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ------
 drivers/of/property.c                           | 6 ------
 2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 29985152b66d..6692b2aa6140 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3299,12 +3299,6 @@
 			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
 			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
 
-	of_devlink	[OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
-			supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
-			consumer/supplier relationships.  A consumer device
-			will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
-			probed successfully.
-
 	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
 			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
 			info.
diff --git a/drivers/of/property.c b/drivers/of/property.c
index 15fc9315f1a7..f104f15b57fb 100644
--- a/drivers/of/property.c
+++ b/drivers/of/property.c
@@ -1299,15 +1299,9 @@ static int of_link_to_suppliers(struct device *dev,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static bool of_devlink;
-core_param(of_devlink, of_devlink, bool, 0);
-
 static int of_fwnode_add_links(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
 			       struct device *dev)
 {
-	if (!of_devlink)
-		return 0;
-
 	if (unlikely(!is_of_node(fwnode)))
 		return 0;
 
-- 
2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog