Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: Use of_property_present() for testing DT property presence

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Rob,

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 3:56 PM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> It is preferred to use typed property access functions (i.e.
> of_property_read_<type> functions) rather than low-level
> of_get_property/of_find_property functions for reading properties. As
> part of this, convert of_get_property/of_find_property calls to the
> recently added of_property_present() helper when we just want to test
> for presence of a property and nothing more.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/renesas/pinctrl.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/renesas/pinctrl.c
> @@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ static int sh_pfc_dt_subnode_to_map(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
>          * inside a subnode nor across subnodes.
>          */
>         if (!pmx->func_prop_name) {
> -               if (of_find_property(np, "groups", NULL) ||
> -                   of_find_property(np, "pins", NULL)) {
> +               if (of_property_present(np, "groups")||
> +                   of_property_present(np, "pins")) {
>                         pmx->func_prop_name = "function";
>                         pmx->groups_prop_name = "groups";
>                         pmx->pins_prop_name = "pins";

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

This check is used to auto-detect if the standard property names
should be used, or the "renesas,"-prefixed ones.
As the last users of the latter were removed from DTS in v4.10,
perhaps I should just remove these checks instead?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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