Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] software node: allow referencing firmware nodes

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 03:41:02PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 
> At the moment software nodes can only reference other software nodes.
> This is a limitation for devices created, for instance, on the auxiliary
> bus with a dynamic software node attached which cannot reference devices
> the firmware node of which is "real" (as an OF node or otherwise).
> 
> Make it possible for a software node to reference all firmware nodes in
> addition to static software nodes. To that end: use a union of different

Still union?

> pointers in struct software_node_ref_args and add an enum indicating
> what kind of reference given instance of it is. Rework the helper macros
> and deprecate the existing ones whose names don't indicate the reference
> type.

> Software node graphs remain the same, as in: the remote endpoints still
> have to be software nodes.

...

> -	refnode = software_node_fwnode(ref->node);

> -	if (!refnode)
> -		return -ENOENT;

Why is this being dropped?

> +	if (ref->swnode)
> +		refnode = software_node_fwnode(ref->swnode);
> +	else if (ref->fwnode)
> +		refnode = ref->fwnode;
> +	else
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  

...

> -#define SOFTWARE_NODE_REFERENCE(_ref_, ...)			\
> +#define __SOFTWARE_NODE_REF(_ref, _type, _node, ...)		\
>  (const struct software_node_ref_args) {				\
> -	.node = _ref_,						\
> +	._node = _ref,						\
>  	.nargs = COUNT_ARGS(__VA_ARGS__),			\
>  	.args = { __VA_ARGS__ },				\
>  }
>  
> +#define SOFTWARE_NODE_REF_SWNODE(_ref, ...)			\
> +	__SOFTWARE_NODE_REF(_ref, SOFTWARE_NODE_REF_SWNODE,	\
> +			    swnode, __VA_ARGS__)
> +
> +#define SOFTWARE_NODE_REF_FWNODE(_ref, ...)			\
> +	__SOFTWARE_NODE_REF(_ref, SOFTWARE_NODE_REF_FWNODE,	\
> +			    fwnode, __VA_ARGS__)

I do not see a point of making these three instead of two direct ones.
But I have no strong objection either.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko