Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] spi: Populate fwnode in of_register_spi_device()

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Nov 05 2020 - 12:12:15 EST


On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 12:54:31PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> From: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This allows the fw_devlink feature to work for spi devices
> too. This avoids unnecessary probe deferrals related to spi devices and
> improves suspend/resume ordering for spi devices when fw_devlink=on.

> of_node_get(nc);
> spi->dev.of_node = nc;
> + spi->dev.fwnode = of_fwnode_handle(nc);

Why is this a manual step in an individual subsystem rather than
something done in the driver core - when would we not want to have the
fwnode correspond to the of_node, and wouldn't that just be a case of
checking to see if there is a fwnode already set and only initializing
if not anyway?

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