Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] hwmon/ltc2990: Generalise DT to fwnode support

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:50 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:19:42AM +0200, Max Staudt wrote:
> > On 08/15/2019 02:58 PM, Max Staudt wrote:
> > > -   if (of_node) {
> > > -           ret = of_property_read_u32_array(of_node, "lltc,meas-mode",
> > > -                                            data->mode, 2);
> > > +   if (i2c->dev.of_node || i2c->dev.fwnode) {

I was just going to comment on this check...

> > One more idea, would it be better here to do the following?
> >
> >       if (device_property_present(i2c->dev, "lltc,meas-mode")) {
> >               ret = of_property_read_u32_array(of_node, "lltc,meas-mode",
> >                                                data->mode, 2);
> >       }
> >
> > I'm happy to prepare a patch if you wish to have this in - just let me know whether it should be on top of the last one, or instead of it.
>
> That would be semantically different. The property is currently mandatory.
> The above code would make it optional. This might work:
>
>         if (dev_fwnode(&i2c->dev)) {
>                 ret = device_property_read_u32_array(...);
>                 ...
>         }

Much better, thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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