Re: [PATCH v8 0/6] Support running driver's probe for a device powered off

[Tomasz Figa]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 9:39 PM Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> > I think we might be overly complicating things. IMHO the series as is
> > with the "i2c_" prefix removed from the flags introduced would be
> > reusable as is for any other subsystem that needs it. Of course, for
> > now, the handling of the flag would remain implemented only in the I2C
> > subsystem.
>
> Just to be clear: you are suggesting to remove "i2c" from the DSD
> binding "i2c-allow-low-power-probe". And you are not talking about
> moving I2C_DRV_FL_ALLOW_LOW_POWER_PROBE to struct device_driver? I
> recall the latter has been NACKed by gkh so far.
>

I'd also drop "I2C_" from "I2C_DRV_FL_ALLOW_LOW_POWER_PROBE", but all
the implementation would remain where it is in the code. IOW, I'm just
suggesting a naming change to avoid proliferating duplicate flags of
the same meaning across subsystems.