Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] software node: allow referencing firmware nodes

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 03:41:02PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> >
> > At the moment software nodes can only reference other software nodes.
> > This is a limitation for devices created, for instance, on the auxiliary
> > bus with a dynamic software node attached which cannot reference devices
> > the firmware node of which is "real" (as an OF node or otherwise).
> >
> > Make it possible for a software node to reference all firmware nodes in
> > addition to static software nodes. To that end: use a union of different
>
> Still union?
>

Right.

> > pointers in struct software_node_ref_args and add an enum indicating
> > what kind of reference given instance of it is. Rework the helper macros
> > and deprecate the existing ones whose names don't indicate the reference
> > type.
>
> > Software node graphs remain the same, as in: the remote endpoints still
> > have to be software nodes.
>
> ...
>
> > -     refnode = software_node_fwnode(ref->node);
>
> > -     if (!refnode)
> > -             return -ENOENT;
>
> Why is this being dropped?
>

I'll fix it.

> > +     if (ref->swnode)
> > +             refnode = software_node_fwnode(ref->swnode);
> > +     else if (ref->fwnode)
> > +             refnode = ref->fwnode;
> > +     else
> > +             return -EINVAL;
> >
>
> ...
>
> > -#define SOFTWARE_NODE_REFERENCE(_ref_, ...)                  \
> > +#define __SOFTWARE_NODE_REF(_ref, _type, _node, ...)         \
> >  (const struct software_node_ref_args) {                              \
> > -     .node = _ref_,                                          \
> > +     ._node = _ref,                                          \
> >       .nargs = COUNT_ARGS(__VA_ARGS__),                       \
> >       .args = { __VA_ARGS__ },                                \
> >  }
> >
> > +#define SOFTWARE_NODE_REF_SWNODE(_ref, ...)                  \
> > +     __SOFTWARE_NODE_REF(_ref, SOFTWARE_NODE_REF_SWNODE,     \
> > +                         swnode, __VA_ARGS__)
> > +
> > +#define SOFTWARE_NODE_REF_FWNODE(_ref, ...)                  \
> > +     __SOFTWARE_NODE_REF(_ref, SOFTWARE_NODE_REF_FWNODE,     \
> > +                         fwnode, __VA_ARGS__)
>
> I do not see a point of making these three instead of two direct ones.
> But I have no strong objection either.
>

Then I'll keep it for now.

Bart