Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] i2c: core: Move client towards fwnode

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Apr 07 2025 - 08:23:40 EST


On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 02:34:48PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 07/04/2025 12:55, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > The struct i2c_board_info has of_node and fwnode members. This is
> > quite confusing as they are of the same semantics and it's tend
> > to have an issue if user assigns both. Luckily there is only a
> > single driver that does this and fix was sent today. Nevertheless
> > the series moves the client handling code to use fwnode and deprecates
> > the of_node member in the respective documentation.
> >
> > Tomi, can you test this series + the patch we discussed earlier so it works as
> > expected?
>
> I tested this series, and then tested this series + "[PATCH v1 1/1] media:
> i2c: ds90ub960: Remove of_node assignment". I didn't see anything amiss in
> either case.
>
> Tested-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you very much for the testing!

> I assume the ds90ub960 patch is the "single driver that does this and fix
> was sent today"? If so, I think that patch could have been included in this
> series as well, there's hardly a chance of conflicts with the one liner. And
> if applied separately, we probably need to apply the ub960 patch one kernel
> version later than this series.

Yeah, I forgot to update the cover letter to point to that one out.
I agree on everything you said above. But let's wait a bit for Wolfram
to comment on / apply this first. It would be nice to have it in, so
we prevent new ambiguous users from appearing.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko