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From: Ioana Ciornei <ciorneiioana@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Ioana Ciornei <ciorneiioana@gmail.com>,
	"Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com, hkallweit1@gmail.com,
	Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mdio: mdiobus: setup of_node for the MDIO device
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:20:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210616082052.s56l54vycxilv5is@skbuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YMkcQ6F2FXWvpeKu@lunn.ch>

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:31:47PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > The fwnode_operations declared in drivers/acpi/property.c also suggest
> > the ACPI fwnodes are not refcounted.
> 
> Is this because ACPI is not dynamic, unlike DT, where you can
> add/remove overlays at runtime?
> 

I am really not an expert here but the git history suggests so, yes.

Without the CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC enabled, the fwnode_handle_get() call is
actually a no-op even in the OF case.

Ioana


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-16  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-15 15:44 [PATCH net-next] mdio: mdiobus: setup of_node for the MDIO device Ioana Ciornei
2021-06-15 16:19 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-06-15 16:49   ` Ioana Ciornei
2021-06-15 17:13 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-06-15 17:24   ` Ioana Ciornei
2021-06-15 18:25     ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-06-15 18:31   ` Andrew Lunn
2021-06-15 21:09     ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-06-15 21:21       ` Ioana Ciornei
2021-06-15 21:31         ` Andrew Lunn
2021-06-16  8:20           ` Ioana Ciornei [this message]
2021-06-16  9:40             ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-06-16 11:01               ` Ioana Ciornei

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