Re: [PATCH 13/23] gpio: mockup: pass the chip label as device property

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 01:01:02PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 6:48 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 05:45:37PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > While we do check the "chip-name" property in probe(), we never actually
> > > use it. Let's pass the chip label to the driver using device properties
> > > as we'll want to allow users to define their own once dynamically
> > > created chips are supported.
> > >
> > > The property is renamed to "chip-label" to not cause any confusion with
> > > the actual chip name which is of the form: "gpiochipX".
> > >
> > > If the "chip-label" property is missing, let's do what most devices in
> > > drivers/gpio/ do and use dev_name().
> >
> > Just wondering if we have a documentation in kernel how this mockup mechanism
> > works and what kind of properties it uses.
> >
> > Side note: moving to software nodes would make some advantages in future such
> > as visibility properties and their values (not yet implemented, but there is an
> > idea to move forward).
> 
> Seems like we're implicitly using software nodes already:
> fwnode_create_software_node() is called when adding device properties.

It's not the same APIs, though the former is called from the latter.
But maybe for now it's okay.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko