[net-next PATCH v4 09/15] device property: Introduce fwnode_get_id()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 05:40:41PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:46 PM Calvin Johnson
> <calvin.johnson at oss.nxp.com> wrote:
> >
> > Using fwnode_get_id(), get the reg property value for DT node
> > or get the _ADR object value for ACPI node.
> 
> So I'm not really sure if this is going to be generically useful.
> 
> First of all, the meaning of the _ADR return value is specific to a
> given bus type (e.g. the PCI encoding of it is different from the I2C
> encoding of it) and it just happens to be matching the definition of
> the "reg" property for this particular binding.

> IOW, not everyone may expect the "reg" property and the _ADR return
> value to have the same encoding and belong to the same set of values,

I have counted three or even four attempts to open code exact this scenario
in the past couple of years. And I have no idea where to put a common base for
them so they will not duplicate this in each case.

> so maybe put this function somewhere closer to the code that's going
> to use it, because it seems to be kind of specific to this particular
> use case?


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko