Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/52xx: Convert to use fwnode API

From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/52xx: Convert to use fwnode API
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 19:30:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YoPNjPp3LMF2+qKS@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k1p6oa7.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 09:38:56AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> writes:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 05:05:12PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 11:48:05PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >> > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> writes:
> >> > > We may convert the GPT driver to use fwnode API for the sake
> >> > > of consistency of the used APIs inside the driver.
> >> > 
> >> > I'm not sure about this one.
> >> > 
> >> > It's more consistent to use fwnode in this driver, but it's very
> >> > inconsistent with the rest of the powerpc code. We have basically no
> >> > uses of the fwnode APIs at the moment.
> >> 
> >> Fair point!
> >> 
> >> > It seems like a pretty straight-forward conversion, but there could
> >> > easily be a bug in there, I don't have any way to test it. Do you?
> >> 
> >> Nope, only compile testing. The important part of this series is to
> >> clean up of_node from GPIO library, so since here it's a user of
> >> it I want to do that. This patch is just ad-hoc conversion that I
> >> noticed is possible. But there is no any requirement to do so.
> >> 
> >> Lemme drop this from v3.
> >
> > I just realize that there is no point to send a v3. You can just apply
> > first 3 patches. Or is your comment against entire series?
> 
> No, my comment is just about this patch.
> 
> I don't mind converting to new APIs when it's blocking some other
> cleanup. But given the age of this code I think it's probably better to
> just leave the rest of it as-is, unless someone volunteers to test it.
> 
> So yeah I'll just take patches 1-3 of this v2 series, no need to resend.

Thanks!

One note though, the fwnode_for_each_parent_node() is not yet available in
upstream, but will be after v5.19-rc1. It means the patch 3 can't be applied
without that. That's why LKP complained on patch 4 in this series.

That said, the easiest way is to postpone it till v5.19-rc1 is out.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko