Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an OF node

[Rob Herring]

+GregKH

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So I've been annoyed lately with having a bunch of devices such as i2c
> eeproms (for use by VPDs, server world !) and other bits and pieces that
> I want to be able to identify from userspace, and possibly provide
> additional data about from FW.
>
> Basically, it boils down to correlating the sysfs device with the OF
> tree device node, so that user space can use device-tree info such as
> additional "location" or "label" (or whatever else we can come up with)
> properties to identify a given device, or get some attributes of use
> about it, etc...
>
> Now, so far, we've done that in some subsystem in a fairly ad-hoc basis
> using "devspec" properties. For example, PCI creates them if it can
> correlate the probed device with a DT node. Some powerpc specific busses
> do that too.
>
> However, i2c doesn't and it would be nice to have something more generic
> since technically any device can have a corresponding device tree node
> these days.
>
> This patch achieves this by adding an "of_node" symlink to devices that
> have a non-NULL dev->of_node pointer.

Doesn't this need sysfs documentation?

> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't mind applying, but this is Greg's code.

Rob

> ---
>  drivers/base/core.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> index 97e2baf..61ef574 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ static int device_add_attrs(struct device *dev)
>  {
>         struct class *class = dev->class;
>         const struct device_type *type = dev->type;
> +       struct device_node *of_node;
>         int error;
>
>         if (class) {
> @@ -493,6 +494,13 @@ static int device_add_attrs(struct device *dev)
>                         goto err_remove_dev_groups;
>         }
>
> +       of_node = dev_of_node(dev);
> +       if (of_node) {
> +               error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &of_node->kobj, "of_node");
> +               if (error)
> +                       dev_warn(dev, "Error %d creating of_node link\n", error);
> +       }
> +
>         return 0;
>
>   err_remove_dev_groups:
>
>
>
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