[PATCH v4 02/10] property: Add device_get_child_node_count_named()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 03:29:17PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On 25/02/2025 12:39, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 12:29:31PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > > On 25/02/2025 12:21, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 11:40:16AM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:

...

> > > > > 
> > > > > I did not check how many users are you proposing for this, but if
> > > > > there's only one, then IMO this should not be a global function yet.
> > > > > It just feels to special case to me. But let's see what the others
> > > > > think.
> > > > 
> > > > The problem is that if somebody hides it, we might potentially see
> > > > a duplication in the future. So I _slightly_ prefer to publish and
> > > > then drop that after a few cycles if no users appear.
> > > 
> > > After taking a very quick grep I spotted one other existing place where we
> > > might be able to do direct conversion to use this function.
> > > 
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
> > > 
> > > That'd be 2 users.
> > 
> > I haven't checked myself, I believe your judgement,
> 
> I took a better look and you obviously shouldn't believe :) The gianfar used
> of_node instead of the fwnode. So, it'd be a single caller at starters.

...which is the same as dev_of_node(), which means that you can use your
function there.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko