Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] introduce fwnode in the I2C subsystem

[Clément Léger]

Le Sun, 15 May 2022 23:34:16 +0200,
Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> 2022-05-14 at 16:47, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > O  
> >> This series is a subset of the one that was first submitted as a larger
> >> series to add swnode support [1]. In this one, it will be focused on
> >> fwnode support only since it seems to have reach a consensus that
> >> adding fwnode to subsystems makes sense.  
> > 
> > From a high level view, I like this series. Though, it will need Peter's
> > ack on the I2C mux patches as he is the I2C mux maintainer. Still, I
> > wonder about the way to upstream the series. Feels like the first 5
> > patches should not go via I2C but seperately?  
> 
> Hi Wolfram,
> 
> I also think it looks basically sane. However, there are a couple of
> comments plus promises to adjust accordingly. I guess I filed it under
> "wait for the next iteration"...
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter

Hi Wolfram & Peter,

While doing the same conversion on the reset subsystem, Rob Herring
stepped in and mention the fact that this could be done using
device-tree overlay (even on system with ACPI) .

The result was that a new serie [1] which add support to create the PCI
devices of_node if not existing, and then allow drivers to applies an
overlay which describe the tree of devices as a child of a specific PCI
device of_node. There are a lot of advantages to this approach (small
patchset working for all susbystems, easier to use, description is
using already existing device-tree). There are still some concerns
about the viability of dynamic overlay but this might be settled soon.

Regards,

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220509141634.16158c38@xps-bootlin/T/

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