[U-Boot-Users] libfdt release?

[Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>]

David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:35:45PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> [snip]
>>>>> * Replace fdt_node_offset() with fdt_find_node_by_path().
>>>> There is no fdt_node_offset(), fdt_path_offset() they mean, maybe.
>>>> And why a gratuitous name change...?
>>> Jerry?
>> We needed the function (Detlev, IIRC).  The gratuitous name change was 
>> intended to be more descriptive.  Perhaps if the correct original name 
>> were used, we wouldn't have needed a gratuitous name change. ;-)
> 
> Heh.
> 
> Do bear in mind in future that the naming conventions in libfdt aren't
> arbitrary.  I've tried to put "offset" in the name of everything that
> returns a structure block offset as a hint to that return convention.
> Additionally it's supposed to mitigate the big libfdt gotcha - that
> offsets aren't handles, so the offset for a node can change if you
> alter another node.

I proposed the name change some time ago on this list:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4639F61F.2050506%40grandegger.com&forum_name=u-boot-users

And they have been accepted and nobody complained ;-). The main reason 
for the change was to make them (almost) compatible with the names used 
by Linux. I think that's useful when we start using FDT for configuring 
U-Boot.

Wolfgang.