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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Vinod Koul , Neil Armstrong , Mark Brown , Liam Girdwood , Lee Jones , Pavel Machek , Peter Rosin , Heiner Kallweit , Moritz Fischer , Xu Yilun , Tom Rix , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Danilo Krummrich , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-phy@lists.infradead.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 07/10] net: phy: switch to using class_find_device_by_fwnode() Message-ID: References: <20260322-remove-device-find-by-of-node-v1-0-b72eb22a1215@gmail.com> <20260322-remove-device-find-by-of-node-v1-7-b72eb22a1215@gmail.com> <32679fc0-c388-4cd7-a030-5f5ed5abab78@lunn.ch> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 08:59:52AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 10:17:15PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 03:54:09AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > - d = class_find_device_by_of_node(&mdio_bus_class, mdio_bus_np); > > > > + d = class_find_device_by_fwnode(&mdio_bus_class, > > > > + of_fwnode_handle(mdio_bus_np)); > > > > > > When you look at this, why is it better? > > > > I think we should move as much as possible towards firmware-agnostic > > APIs and use fwnode_handle instead of device_node or software_node or > > ACPI companion. To discourage this I think we better remove > > firmware-specific APIs where we have firmware-agnostic ones and > > eventually clean up drivers that use OF- or ACPI-specific APIs. > > Basically, no. This is wrong. > > It may sound like a good goal, but there's an underlying issue. This > goal assumes that the firmware description in OF and ACPI are > indentical. If they are different then drivers will make allowance for this, like I2C core or SPI core does. But most of the modern drivers use firmware-agnostic APIs (device_property_*()). ACPI has allowance for device tree properties (via PRP0001 HID entries), and drivers should work with them. > > Sure, looking up devices by fwnode handle makes sense, but looking up > anything that is described in firmware is not suitable for this kind > of conversion, because in doing so, you effectively "port" the DT > bindings to ACPI, and it may not be suitable for ACPI. > > So, please don't make wholesale changes that transfer the DT bindings > into ACPI. > I am not "transferring" anything, but I want to make sure the code works even if we augment OF with software nodes or if DT properties are used in ACPI. Thanks. -- Dmitry