linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] property: add fwnode_property_read_string

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Message-ID: <20220321113341.3c243e96@fixe.home>
Date:   Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:33:41 +0100
From:   Clément Léger <clement.leger@...tlin.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "'Rafael J . Wysocki '" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] property: add fwnode_property_read_string_index()

Le Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:31:58 +0200,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> a écrit :

> > 
> > IMHO, it would indeed be better. However,
> > fwnode_property_match_string() also allocates memory to do the same
> > kind of operation. Would you also like a callback for this one ?  
> 
> But matching string will need all of them to cover all possible cases.
> So, it doesn't rely on the certain index and needs allocation anyway.

Acked, it makes sense to keep it that way.

-- 
Clément Léger,
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineer at Bootlin
https://bootlin.com