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
next prev parent 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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