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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] Support children for legacy device properties
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On 9/17/2018 8:15 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> The generic device properties APIs are very helpful as they allow abstracting
> away details of the platform (whether it is ACPI, device tree, or legacy board
> file), so that individual driver does not need separate code paths to support
> all variants. However there are drivers that currently can not use generic
> device properties API as they need notion of children properties, for example
> gpio_keys driver, that expects every button to be described as a sub-node of
> main device.
>
> This patch series introduces notion of sub-nodes for static properties and ties
> it up with GPIO lookup tables so that they are usable with sub-nodes as well.

I don't have any objections against this series.

Thanks,
Rafael

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