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:

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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.