Re: [PATCH 3/4] of/property: Introduce of_fwnode_name()

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Nov 06 2018 - 08:18:28 EST


On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 6:27 AM Heikki Krogerus
<heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 12:58:03PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 12:50:02PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:17 AM Heikki Krogerus
> > > <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > +static const char *of_fwnode_name(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode)
> > > > +{
> > > > + return to_of_node(fwnode)->name;
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get rid of the DT name ptr, so please don't add one. You
> > > can use of_node_full_name() here instead if "<name>@<unit-address>"
> > > instead of <name> is fine. Otherwise, you've got to allocate your own
> > > storage and use "%pOFn" printf specifier.
> >
> > If we do this here, we will change a behaviour of the entire set of
> > of_fwnode_get_named_child_node() users.
> >
> > I think this is out of scope of the series.

No, because you are adding a firmware op for something that's going away.

> You have a point. We must use the same member that was used in
> of_fwnode_get_named_child_node().
>
> The goal of this series if most likely not clear from this patch
> alone, so I'll send a second version and make sure to CC the DT list
> and Rob.

Looking at patch 4, if matching the name is what you want to do, then
use the DT name matching functions. They were added in 4.19.

Rob