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From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
	"linux-mips@linux-mips.org" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	"ralf@linux-mips.org" <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" 
	<devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] of: Make of_find_node_by_path() traverse /aliases for relative paths.
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:59:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5A44E5.6090300@cavium.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120309013324.64DF53E0901@localhost>

On 03/08/2012 05:33 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:21:04 -0800, David Daney<ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> From: David Daney<david.daney@cavium.com>
>>
>> Currently all paths passed to of_find_node_by_path() must begin with a
>> '/', indicating a full path to the desired node.
>>
>> Augment the look-up code so that if a path does *not* begin with '/',
>> the path is used as the name of an /aliases property.  The value of
>> this alias is then used as the full node path to be found.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Daney<david.daney@cavium.com>
[...]
>
> All the aliases are already decoded at boot time now.  See
> of_alias_scan().  Instead of open-coding this, you can add an
> of_alias_lookup() function something like this (untested):
>

After objections from davem, and a bit of thought, I already indicated 
on a different branch of this thread that we should drop this patch.

I have improved my code so that it is no longer needed.

Thanks,
David Daney

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-29 19:21 [PATCH v6 0/2] of: Device Tree enhancements needed by MIPS/OCTEON David Daney
2012-02-29 19:21 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] of/lib: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code David Daney
2012-02-29 19:21 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] of: Make of_find_node_by_path() traverse /aliases for relative paths David Daney
2012-02-29 20:36   ` David Miller
2012-02-29 21:34     ` David Daney
2012-02-29 22:18       ` David Daney
2012-03-09  1:33   ` Grant Likely
2012-03-09 17:59     ` David Daney [this message]
2012-03-09 18:00       ` Grant Likely

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