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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: sim: don't fiddle with GPIOLIB private members
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:54:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZdixvgZaW0-95zc8@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGETcx92GgwBpd58dLgquLFxqXiHK5QHGK3Rhkd9pC_4p7Ra6w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 05:01:04PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 4:59 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 05:46:27PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:

...

> > Is there any _good_ documentation for devlinks and all that fields in the
> > struct fwnode? Why should we use that without any understanding of the
> > purposes of that field. We, as device property developers, hadn't introduced
> > that field and never required it. It's an alien to device properties APIs.
> 
> If I add some inline documentation for these fields, will you be more
> open to letting people use this as a way to look up devices? I'm happy
> to do that for you.

I consider documentation patches to be always welcome. But it doesn't mean
we allow to use that fields in device property APIs without a very good
justification.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



      reply	other threads:[~2024-02-23 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-01 18:32 [PATCH] gpio: sim: don't fiddle with GPIOLIB private members Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-01 21:10 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-02 14:40   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-04  8:58     ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-04  9:22       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-04  9:40         ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-04  9:47           ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-04 10:05             ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-04 10:12               ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-04 10:29                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-02-21  1:46                   ` Saravana Kannan
2024-02-21  9:34                     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-02-21 12:59                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-02-23  1:01                       ` Saravana Kannan
2024-02-23 14:54                         ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]

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