Re: [PATCH v1] i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board_info()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:10:36AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 01:32:01PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > > This allows the of_devlink feature to work across i2c devices too. This
> > > avoid unnecessary probe deferrals of i2c devices, defers consumers of
> > > i2c devices till the i2c devices probe, and allows i2c drivers to
> > > implement sync_state() callbacks.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
> > > ---
> > > The of_devlink feature is present in driver-core-next branch. It started
> > > off with [1] but it has been improving since then.
> > > 
> > > [1] -- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20190904211126.47518-1-saravanak@google.com/
> > > 
> > >  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > Wolfram, I can take this through my tree now if you have no objections
> > to this.
> 
> What would be the advantage? I can also apply it today if you ack it.

I think it will not build in your tree if you apply it now as this is a
new api :)