Re: [PATCH 01/10] rust: Move property_present to property.rs

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 06:13:40PM +0100, Remo Senekowitsch wrote:
> > Not all property-related APIs can be exposed directly on a device.
> > For example, iterating over child nodes of a device will yield
> > fwnode_handle. Thus, in order to access properties on these child nodes,
> > the APIs has to be duplicated on a fwnode as they are in C.
> >
> > A related discussion can be found on the R4L Zulip[1].
> >
> > [1] https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/288089-General/topic/DS90UB954.20driver.20done.2C.20ready.20to.20upstream.3F/near/505415697
>
> You can make the above to be a Link tag like
>
> Link: ... [1]
>
> > Signed-off-by: Remo Senekowitsch <remo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ...
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> > +struct fwnode_handle *rust_helper_dev_fwnode(struct device *dev)
> > +{
> > +     return dev_fwnode(dev);
> > +}
>
> Why not const? For most of the property retrieval APIs the parameter is const.

Because you might need to modify the refcount.

Though the rust code should probably use __dev_fwnode() and/or
__dev_fwnode_const() directly and avoid the need for the helper here.

Rob