linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] software node: fix wrong node passed to find nargs

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Date:   Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:34:11 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Clément Léger <clement.leger@...tlin.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] software node: fix wrong node passed to find nargs_prop

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:37:07PM +0000, Daniel Scally wrote:
> Thanks Andy
> 
> On 20/12/2021 22:13, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > + Sakari, Dan
> > 
> > On Monday, December 20, 2021, Clément Léger <clement.leger@...tlin.com
> > <mailto:clement.leger@...tlin.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     nargs_prop refers to a property located in the reference that is found
> >     within the nargs property.
> 
> I think this is right (it's not used in the ACPI version, and the OF
> version is quite convoluted so a bit hard to follow)...but also I note
> that none of the users of fwnode_property_get_reference_args() pass
> anything to nargs_prop anyway...do we even need this?

Looks like it is unused, please just remove it.

thanks,

greg k-h