From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board_info() Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 13:57:11 +0100 Message-ID: <20191116125711.GA451566@kroah.com> References: <20191115045049.261104-1-saravanak@google.com> <20191115053201.GA800105@kroah.com> <20191115091035.GA2227@kunai> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191115091035.GA2227@kunai> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Saravana Kannan , kernel-team@android.com, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.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 > > > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan > > > --- > > > 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 :)