Driver core: Unified device properties interface for platform firmware

Add a uniform interface by which device drivers can request device
properties from the platform firmware by providing a property name
and the corresponding data type.  The purpose of it is to help to
write portable code that won't depend on any particular platform
firmware interface.

The following general helper functions are added:

device_property_present()
device_property_read_u8()
device_property_read_u16()
device_property_read_u32()
device_property_read_u64()
device_property_read_string()
device_property_read_u8_array()
device_property_read_u16_array()
device_property_read_u32_array()
device_property_read_u64_array()
device_property_read_string_array()

The first one allows the caller to check if the given property is
present.  The next 5 of them allow single-valued properties of
various types to be retrieved in a uniform way.  The remaining 5 are
for reading properties with multiple values (arrays of either numbers
or strings).

The interface covers both ACPI and Device Trees.

This change set includes material from Mika Westerberg and Aaron Lu.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
index 3823edf2d012..4c2ccde42427 100644
--- a/drivers/of/base.c
+++ b/drivers/of/base.c
@@ -1250,6 +1250,39 @@ int of_property_read_u64(const struct device_node *np, const char *propname,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_property_read_u64);
 
 /**
+ * of_property_read_u64_array - Find and read an array of 64 bit integers
+ * from a property.
+ *
+ * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
+ * @propname:	name of the property to be searched.
+ * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is 0.
+ * @sz:		number of array elements to read
+ *
+ * Search for a property in a device node and read 64-bit value(s) from
+ * it. Returns 0 on success, -EINVAL if the property does not exist,
+ * -ENODATA if property does not have a value, and -EOVERFLOW if the
+ * property data isn't large enough.
+ *
+ * The out_values is modified only if a valid u64 value can be decoded.
+ */
+int of_property_read_u64_array(const struct device_node *np,
+			       const char *propname, u64 *out_values,
+			       size_t sz)
+{
+	const __be32 *val = of_find_property_value_of_size(np, propname,
+						(sz * sizeof(*out_values)));
+
+	if (IS_ERR(val))
+		return PTR_ERR(val);
+
+	while (sz--) {
+		*out_values++ = of_read_number(val, 2);
+		val += 2;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
  * of_property_read_string - Find and read a string from a property
  * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
  * @propname:	name of the property to be searched.