linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] driver core: Ensure DT devices always have fwnode set

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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 17:08:45 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] driver core: Ensure DT devices always have fwnode set

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 05:55:10PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:23 AM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > That also sounds good, particularly if we have a coccinelle spatch

> I've never used coccinelle. But I can fix 5-10 easily findable ones
> like i2c, platform, spi, slimbus, spmi, etc.

The thought with coccinelle (or like I say some other mechanism) is that
we would have something around to catch any new users that should be
using the helper but aren't rather than issues with making the changes.

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