Re: [PATCH] device property: don't bother the drivers with struct property_set

From: Heikki Krogerus
Date: Tue Mar 15 2016 - 05:04:46 EST


On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 01:20:00PM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Since device_add_property_set() now always takes a copy of
> the property_set, and also since the fwnode type is always
> hard coded to be FWNODE_PDATA, there is no need for the
> drivers to deliver the entire struct property_set. The
> function can just create the instance of it on its own and
> bind the properties from the drivers to it on the spot.
>
> This renames device_add_property_set() to
> device_add_properties(). The function now takes struct
> property_entry as its parameter instead of struct
> property_set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-paz00.c | 6 +-----
> drivers/base/platform.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
> drivers/base/property.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-acpi.c | 6 +-----
> drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c | 14 +++-----------
> drivers/mfd/intel-lpss.c | 2 +-
> drivers/mfd/intel-lpss.h | 2 +-
> drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c | 4 ++--
> include/linux/mfd/core.h | 2 +-
> include/linux/platform_device.h | 4 ++--
> include/linux/property.h | 15 +++------------
> 11 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

There are now more users for the build-in properties so I'm going to
have to resend this.


Cheers,

--
heikki