Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pinctrl: Intel Cherryview/Braswell support

[Timur Tabi]

On 11/04/2014 04:47 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> What exactly do you need the size of the property alone for?

There are lots of situations where you don't know the size of the 
property in advance (e.g. strings), and drivers use of_find_property() 
or of_get_property() to pre-allocate a buffer or to verify that the 
property is correctly formed in the device tree.

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