Re: [PATCH v7 00/13] Device property improvements, add %pfw format specifier
From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Sep 19 2019 - 04:00:21 EST
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:34 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This set adds functionality into the device property API (counting a
> node's parents as well as obtaining its name) in order to support printing
> fwnode names using a new conversion specifier "%pfw". The names that are
> produced are equivalent to its OF counterpart "%pOF" on OF systems for the
> two supported modifiers ("f" and "P").
>
> Printing a node's name is something that's been available on OF for a long
> time and if something is converted to device property API (such as the
> V4L2 fwnode framework) it always got removed of a nice feature that was
> sometimes essential in debugging. With this set, that no longer is the
> case.
>
> Note: the set now depends on 2d44d165e939 ("scsi: lpfc: Convert existing
> %pf users to %ps") that is expected from the linux-scsi tree. It is
OK, so I will be expecting a refresh of the series when the above
commit appears in the mainline.
Cheers,
Rafael