[PATCH v2 1/3] of: add common OF-based component functionality

Rob Herring robh+dt at kernel.org
Fri Jun 3 12:52:28 PDT 2016


On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:29:40AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>> > Add common OF-based component functionality for matching devices by
>> > device node, and releasing the device node at the appropraite time.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/of/Makefile          |  2 +-
>> >  drivers/of/of_component.c    | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  include/linux/of_component.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>
>> I'd prefer this to go into drivers/base/component.c. That's the
>> general direction we've been moving.
>
> I'd prefer not to, I don't want to turn the component helpers into
> something OF specific.  They aren't OF specific.

Fine, not enough code to argue about...

>> I'd expect this would cause some build failures unless the cases you
>> converted all depend on CONFIG_OF.
>
> Okay, I'll stick with v1 then, and the duplication that v1 involves.

Why? You don't want to add empty functions? Seems like good clean-up.

Rob



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