checking status semantics with compatible functions
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Mar 31 01:31:13 EST 2011
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:26:29AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> [Adding proper lists on CC]
>
> - k
>
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 3:07 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> > Grant,
> >
> > We have a few helper functions like:
> >
> > drivers/of/base.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_device_is_compatible);
> > drivers/of/base.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_compatible_node);
> >
> > That we use in places like arch/powerpc/platform/85xx/mpc85xx_ds.c:
> >
> > for_each_node_by_type(np, "pci") {
> > if (of_device_is_compatible(np, "fsl,mpc8540-pci") ||
> > of_device_is_compatible(np, "fsl,mpc8548-pcie") ||
> > of_device_is_compatible(np, "fsl,p2020-pcie")) {
> >
> > It seems like we should check 'status' in these cases with
> > 'of_device_is_available'. I'm thinking that we should have
> > versions of the helpers that also do the 'of_device_is_available'
> > checking. Or should we just change the helpers to call
> > of_device_is_available?
Yes, of_device_is_available() should be checked, but it should not be
added directly to of_device_is_compatible(). I'm okay with adding
a helper variant that does the of_device_is_compatible() check.
In that particular case, I'd also suggest using for_each_matching_node().
g.
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