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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-15T05:32:01Z

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.

thanks,

greg k-h