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From: John Bonesio <bones-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
To: David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow nodes at the root to be specified by path as well as by label.
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:05:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287504355.4535.1465.camel@riker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101019021411.GA24726@yookeroo>

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:14 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 01:25:50PM -0700, John Bonesio wrote:
> > Changes to allow us to specify a node by it's path. A path can be used in
> > place of a label.
> > 
> > This is particularly useful when overriding existing nodes.
> > This way we don't have to label every possible node in a device tree we know
> > is a base device tree for a class of systems, and we know the tree will be
> > modified for the specific systems.
> 
> Nack.  This patch is pointless, the DT_REF lexing will already resolve
> paths in the form &{/some/path} and I see no reason that won't work
> for tree merging as well.  Oh, and bare &/path/to/node is a bad idea
> anyway, more about that later.
> 

I believe a patch is still necessary. I just tried dtc from git without
changes. I didn't work.

It also looks to me like get_node_by_label() will not resolve nodes that
are specified by path.

Perhaps I'm just doing something wrong.

- John

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-18 20:25 [PATCH 1/2] Implements new features for updating existing device tree nodes John Bonesio
2010-10-18 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] Allow nodes at the root to be specified by path as well as by label John Bonesio
2010-10-18 20:50   ` Grant Likely
     [not found]     ` <AANLkTimi_w-3pd9U6mKj5A78RzOp2KdBvh3fqgNTFBqH@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <20101018215143.GC3337@angua.secretlab.ca>
     [not found]         ` <20101018215143.GC3337-MrY2KI0G/OVr83L8+7iqerDks+cytr/Z@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-18 23:36           ` John Bonesio
     [not found]             ` <AANLkTimT6WaCDgLM-cqEvrUqTmeDDohOGEgxDXjxssPQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-19  2:33               ` David Gibson
2010-10-23 23:14                 ` node reference: path from a label John Bonesio
2010-10-25  4:26                   ` David Gibson
2010-11-02  4:42                     ` Grant Likely
2010-10-19  2:14   ` [PATCH 2/2] Allow nodes at the root to be specified by path as well as by label David Gibson
2010-10-19 16:05     ` John Bonesio [this message]
2010-10-19 21:51       ` David Gibson
2010-10-18 20:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] Implements new features for updating existing device tree nodes Grant Likely

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