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From: robin.murphy@arm•com (Robin Murphy)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] of: Add of_parse_phandle_with_opt_args() helper function
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:39:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560C0232.2010100@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442944336-11754-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com>

Hi Marc,

On 22/09/15 18:52, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> of_parse_phandle_with_args() is slightly inflexible as it doesn't
> allow the (unusual) case where the #*-cells property is not defined.
> In order to support this, introduce of_parse_phandle_with_opt_args()
> which assumes that #*-cells is zero when it is not defined,
> as required by the msi-parent binding
>
> This is done by turning __of_parse_phandle_with_args into an even
> bigger monster, which is a bit frightening.

A monster indeed; I can't quite figure out the exact effect this change 
has on of_count_phandle_with_args(), but I have a lingering doubt it may 
be something undesirable, since AFAICS that's now going to proceed from 
where it would have errored out before, with a count of -2.

I think it might be nicer to implement this by passing an extra "assume 
zero if #cells not found" boolean to __of_parse_phandle_with_args().

Alternatively, what's the actual likelihood of legacy bindings being 
mixed in with new ones? Could we not simply mandate that anyone adding 
an MSI controller with #msi-cells to a DT must ensure any existing nodes 
are also updated with #msi-cells = 0, and keep the legacy workaround 
self-contained in the MSI layer? e.g. paraphrasing from patch 2/2:

msi_np = of_parse_phandle(np, "msi-parent", 0);
if (!of_property_read_bool(msi_np, "#msi-cells"))
	return parse_this_thing(...);
else
	while (!of_parse_phandle_with_opt_args(np, "msi-parent"...
		if (parse_this_thing(...))
			return;

Robin.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 17:52 [PATCH 0/4] of: Handle multi-parent version of msi-parent Marc Zyngier
2015-09-22 17:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] of: Add of_parse_phandle_with_opt_args() helper function Marc Zyngier
2015-09-29 17:28   ` Rob Herring
2015-09-30  9:08     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-09-30 13:57     ` Mark Rutland
2015-09-30 15:39   ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2015-09-30 17:18     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-09-22 17:52 ` [PATCH 2/4] of: irq: Add support for the new definition of "msi-parent" Marc Zyngier
2015-09-23 14:39   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-09-27 10:29     ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-09-27 13:02       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-09-22 17:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] PCI/MSI: " Marc Zyngier
2015-09-22 17:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Parse new version of msi-parent property Marc Zyngier

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