Re: [RESEND][PATCH 0/4] firmware: of: populate /firmware/ node during init
From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Thu Sep 28 2017 - 06:47:33 EST
On 28/09/17 11:44, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> Hi Rob, Arnd,
>
> There's a push to place all firmware related device node under
> /firmware/ node. However all the associated drivers are dealing with
> device creation in their own ways. For example, qcom_scm, optee and
> meson-sm drivers deal with the node in their own way. The SCMI drivers
> I am about to add also needs to do the same. This small series is to
> make it generic so that all the users of /firmware/ node need not
> repeat the same.
>
> There was concern that /firmware in DT is fit for /sys/firmware in sysfs.
> IMO anything exposed to userspace from such firmware interface must
> be in "/sys/firmware", but I don't see any issue with kernel handling
> them as platform device/driver internally.
>
Please ignore this, something went wrong and patches were not delivered,
have reposted it separately.
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Regards,
Sudeep