Re: [PATCH 1/5] of: introduce of_graph_get_remote_node

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Feb 06 2017 - 08:42:10 EST


On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 09:36:31PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>> The OF graph API leaves too much of the graph walking to clients when
>> in many cases the driver doesn't care about accessing the port or
>> endpoint nodes. The drivers typically just want the device connected via
>> a particular graph connection. of_graph_get_remote_node provides this
>> functionality.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Just a quick procedural comment: drm-misc for 4.11 is closed already, but
> if we can get this core patch into 4.11 still then that would avoid
> cross-tree sync pains in 4.12 ...

Right, I was thinking the same thing.

Rob