Re: [RFC PATCH v2 12/17] ACPI: property: Add support for nargs_prop in acpi_fwnode_get_reference_args()

[Sunil V L]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 04:41:35PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Ah, interesting. The original change that introduces this 3e3119d3088f ("device
> > property: Introduce fwnode_property_get_reference_args") hadn't been reviewed
> > by Mika or me, that's probably why we are not familiar with.
> > 
> > Since interface is already established, I would recommend to fix
> > this as proposed, i.e. with a new API. This is the way to match
> > how OF seems to be doing.
> 
> For the reference see implementation of of_fwnode_get_reference_args()
> 
> 	if (nargs_prop)
> 		ret = of_parse_phandle_with_args(to_of_node(fwnode), prop,
> 						 nargs_prop, index, &of_args);
> 	else
> 		ret = of_parse_phandle_with_fixed_args(to_of_node(fwnode), prop,
> 						       nargs, index, &of_args);
> 
> 
Thanks!. I can do similar. But the change in
__acpi_node_get_property_reference() will be still required since that
is the place where the actual decoding of AML object is done. That would
be similar to __of_parse_phandle_with_args() as well. Hope that is fine.

Thanks,
Sunil