Re: [PATCH 06/13] power: supply: bq25890: Add support for skipping initialization

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 9:28 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On most X86/ACPI devices there is no devicetree to supply the necessary
> init-data. Instead the firmware already fully initializes the bq25890
> charger at boot.
>
> At support for a new "ti,skip-init" boolean property to support this.
> So far this new property is only used on X86/ACPI (non devicetree) devs,
> IOW it is not used in actual devicetree files. The devicetree-bindings
> maintainers have requested properties like these to not be added to the
> devicetree-bindings, so the new property is deliberately not added
> to the existing devicetree-bindings.

With 'ti,' prefix it can be a potential collision in name space, for
internal properties I would rather use 'linux,' one.

...

> +       init->write_cfg = !device_property_read_bool(bq->dev, "ti,skip-init");
> +       if (!init->write_cfg)
> +               return 0;

Why to have double negation here?
I would rather expect that you will have direct value in the structure
and do a respective check in the functions.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko