Re: [PATCH] ACPI/IORT: Handle device properties with software node API

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:13 PM Heikki Krogerus
<heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:39:12AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 03:55:28PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > > The older device property API is going to be removed.
> > > Replacing the device_add_properties() call with software
> > > node API equivalent device_create_managed_software_node().
> > >
> > > Fixes: 434b73e61cc6 ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use device properties for pasid-num-bits")
> >
> > Is this really fixing anything ? I am not sure I understand what you
> > would like to achieve with this tag.
>
> Right now it's not possible to simply remove the old API because some
> of the maintainers want to take care of the conversion themselves, but
> at the same time I also do not want to see any new releases of the
> kernel that introduce more users for it. That's why it's a fix.

With the assumption that the above clarification is sufficient,
applied as 5.14 material, thanks!