Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] PCI: of: Propagate firmware node

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Apr 17 2023 - 06:46:58 EST


On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 01:55:45PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 07:00:26PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:02:53AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 04:15:20PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

...

> > > > Propagate firmware node by using a specific API call, i.e. device_set_node().
> > >
> > > Can you add a line or two about *why* we should do this, e.g., is this
> > > headed toward some goal?
> >
> > Because dereferencing the fwnode in struct device is preventing us from
> > modifications of how fwnode looks like in the future.
>
> How do you want to express this in the commit log? Something like
> this?
>
> Insulate pci_set_of_node() and pci_set_bus_of_node() from possible
> changes to fwnode_handle implementation by using device_set_node()
> instead of open-coding dev->dev.fwnode assignments.

Sounds good to me, thanks for the draft. I will do it in v2 this way.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko