Re: [PATCH 0/3] gpiolib: generalize GPIO line names property

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 3:12 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 02:01:56PM +0200, Anders Roxell wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 18:40, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > I initially sent this as part of the gpio-mockup overhaul but since
> > > these patches are indepentent and the work on gpio-mockup may become
> > > more complicated - I'm sending these separately.
> > >
> > > The only change is adding additional property helpers to count strings
> > > in array.
> > >
> > > Bartosz Golaszewski (3):
> > >   device: property: add helpers to count items in string arrays
> > >   gpiolib: generalize devprop_gpiochip_set_names() for device properties
> > >   gpiolib: unexport devprop_gpiochip_set_names()
>
> Ha-ha, OF unittest is of_node centric. definitely there is no backed device.
>
> Bart, it seems we are stuck with fwnode interface.
>

Wait what?! This means the implementation is wrong - the whole concept
of device properties is to be generic and to hide the underlying
fwnode or OF properties. If anything we should fix
device/base/property.c to fall back to OF.

What is happening exactly? If all fwnode code compiled out?

I'll try to give it a spin and see what can be done but I don't like
that device_property_* functions fail if you have OF but not fwnode.

Bart