netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v4 01/15] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: Document MDIO PHY

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:21:07 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson@....nxp.com>,
        Grant Likely <grant.likely@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 01/15] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: Document MDIO PHY

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 6:44 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 5:37 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 7:48 AM Calvin Johnson
> > <calvin.johnson@....nxp.com> wrote:

...

> > It would work, but I would introduce a wrapper around the _ADR
> > evaluation, something like:
> >
> > int acpi_get_local_address(acpi_handle handle, u32 *addr)
> > {
> >       unsigned long long adr;
> >       acpi_status status;
> >
> >       status = acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, METHOD_NAME__ADR, NULL, &adr);
> >       if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
> >                 return -ENODATA;
> >
> >       *addr = (u32)adr;
> >       return 0;
> > }
> >
> > in drivers/acpi/utils.c and add a static inline stub always returning
> > -ENODEV for it for !CONFIG_ACPI.

...

> BTW, you may not need the fwnode_get_local_addr() at all then, just
> evaluate either the "reg" property for OF or acpi_get_local_address()
> for ACPI in the "caller" code directly. A common helper doing this can
> be added later.

Sounds good to me and it will address your concern about different
semantics of reg/_ADR on per driver/subsystem basis.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko