Re: [RFC PATCH v2 02/16] Driver core: Unified device properties interface for platform firmware

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-17T18:29:29Z

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:52:33PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> Add a uniform interface by which device drivers can request device
> properties from the platform firmware by providing a property name
> and the corresponding data type. The purpose of it is to help to
> write portable code that won't depend on any particular platform
> firmware interface.
>
> Three general helper functions, device_get_property(),
> device_read_property() and device_read_property_array() are provided.
> The first one allows the raw value of a given device property to be
> accessed by the driver. The remaining two allow the value of a numeric
> or string property and multiple numeric or string values of one array
> property to be acquired, respectively. Static inline wrappers are also
> provided for the various property data types that can be passed to
> device_read_property() or device_read_property_array() for extra type
> checking.
>
> In addition to that new generic routines are provided for retrieving
> properties from device description objects in the platform firmware
> in case there are no struct device objects for them (either those
> objects have not been created yet or they do not exist at all).
> Again, three functions are provided, dev_node_get_property(),
> dev_node_read_property(), dev_node_read_property_array(), in analogy
> with device_get_property(), device_read_property() and
> device_read_property_array() described above, respectively, along
> with static inline wrappers for all of the propery data types that
> can be used. For all of them, the first argument is a pointer to
> struct fw_dev_node (new type) that in turn contains exactly one
> valid pointer to a device description object (depending on what
> platform firmware interface is in use).
>
> Finally, device_for_each_child_node() is added for iterating over
> the children of the device description object associated with the
> given device.
>
> The interface covers both ACPI and Device Trees.
>
> This change set includes material from Mika Westerberg and Aaron Lu.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Looks good to me, feel free to take this through your tree with my:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>