On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:16 AM Dmitry Torokhov
[off-list ref] 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.

This is the patch series I would have written, had I been smart enough.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>
for the series.

I can't test the SIM.ONE board with this until next week but the approach
is definately what we want, not just for legacy boards, but also for any
other non-discoverable hardware we currently poke into
drivers/platform or arch/x86/platform etc.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

Yours,
Linus Walleij