Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: mockup: Allow probing from device tree

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:28 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> 2018-09-10 9:05 GMT+02:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>:
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 6:29 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> >> 2018-09-05 15:26 GMT+02:00 Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>:
> >
> >> > +               ret = of_property_read_u32(node, "nr-gpios", &nr_gpios);
> >>
> >> In addition to what Linus already said: I think this is a good moment
> >> to get rid of the platform data structure and instead use device
> >> properties, what do you think?
> >
> > If you're thinking of fwnode that will not work with static platform devices
> > (such as add with board files or other random platform_device_register() etc)
> > The fwnode concept only works with DT and ACPI.
>
> I was thinking about using generic device properties: add property
> entries with platform_device_add_properties() and read them with
> device_property_read_*() functions. Is there any reason this wouldn't
> work?

Oh I never used that. So I can't tell. It looks neat from a few
grep commands.

This occupies a space similar to fwnode in my perception so
I start to feel there are so many ways to do things now I get all
confused.

Yours,
Linus Walleij