Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] of: overlay: make the pattern match function more generic

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 06:58:31PM +0200, Marco Felsch wrote:
> The current overlay mechanism can handle files only, so filepattern was
> obvious. With the next commit this will change, so overlays can also
> supplied via FIT images. To prepare the pattern filter to match FIT
> config-nodes make the filter and global variable handling the pattern
> more generic by dropping the "file" prefix.
> 
> Keep the backward compatibility by still providing the filepattern
> filter and the global of.overlay.filepattern variable but notice the
> user that the usage of those are deprecated.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/of/overlay.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Please update Documentation/user/devicetree.rst accordingly as well.

Sascha

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