Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] of: unittest: Switch to use fwnode instead of of_node

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Jun 30 2022 - 17:34:23 EST


On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:03 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 6:29 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 02:50:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > GPIO library now accepts fwnode as a firmware node, so
> > > switch the module to use it.
>
> ...
>
> > > - devptr->chip.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
> > > + devptr->chip.fwnode = dev_fwnode(&pdev->dev);
> >
> > Perhaps I want the DT test code to test using the of_node pointer. We do
> > want that to work, right?
>
> Nope. We want to get rid of of_node in GPIO.

I would think there's old PPC users preventing that, but if not, good job.

> > I'm really not a fan of fwnode'ifying things that are DT only. It's
> > really pointless churn.
>
> Other way around, keeping an of_node for just 3 drivers (and counting
> down) + one test case is pointless churn.
>
> But I got that commit message that is unclear about the intentions
> behind. I will update that if you agree on the rest.

If it is going away, then what choice do I have. :)

Rob