linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] platform/x86: serial-multi-instantiate: Set fwnode for i2c

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Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:51:17 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Stefan Binding <sbinding@...nsource.cirrus.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        patches@...nsource.cirrus.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] platform/x86: serial-multi-instantiate: Set fwnode
 for i2c

Hi,

On 11/24/22 12:35, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 1:07 PM Stefan Binding
> <sbinding@...nsource.cirrus.com> wrote:
>>
>> This allows the i2c driver to obtain the ACPI_COMPANION.
> 
> As far as I get how it's done in the SPI case the real fix should lie
> among i2c_acpi_new_device_by_fwnode(), right?

Eventually maybe, but not for the initial change.

It is complicated, making this change has side-effects
and we want to limit those side-effects to only i2c-clients
instantiated from serial-multi-instantiate for now, see
my other reply to this patch.

I do believe that we eventually want to make this change,
to easily give drivers access to all sorts of info
(e.g. _DSM methods) from the matching ACPI fw-node,
but as I said it is complicated...

Regards,

Hans