linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/23] gpio: mockup: pass the chip label as device property

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Date:   Mon, 7 Sep 2020 14:48:38 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/23] gpio: mockup: pass the chip label as device
 property

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 01:01:02PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 6:48 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 05:45:37PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> > >
> > > While we do check the "chip-name" property in probe(), we never actually
> > > use it. Let's pass the chip label to the driver using device properties
> > > as we'll want to allow users to define their own once dynamically
> > > created chips are supported.
> > >
> > > The property is renamed to "chip-label" to not cause any confusion with
> > > the actual chip name which is of the form: "gpiochipX".
> > >
> > > If the "chip-label" property is missing, let's do what most devices in
> > > drivers/gpio/ do and use dev_name().
> >
> > Just wondering if we have a documentation in kernel how this mockup mechanism
> > works and what kind of properties it uses.
> >
> > Side note: moving to software nodes would make some advantages in future such
> > as visibility properties and their values (not yet implemented, but there is an
> > idea to move forward).
> 
> Seems like we're implicitly using software nodes already:
> fwnode_create_software_node() is called when adding device properties.

It's not the same APIs, though the former is called from the latter.
But maybe for now it's okay.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko