From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:25:53 +1100 Message-ID: <1416363953.5704.19.camel@kernel.crashing.org> References: <1415342031.4925.27.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <1415342117.4925.29.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <1415596626.5769.14.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Grant Likely Cc: Rob Herring , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 15:18 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: > >> So not much reactions here .. a bit more on IRC, where Olof > suggested > >> that rather than a file containing a path, we could use a symlink > since > >> the devtree is now in sysfs, so we can do relative links. > > > > +1 on this. That was part of the motivation to move DT into sysfs. > > > > Rob > > I had a patch that did exactly that. I wonder what happened to it... > > But regardless, as Frank said in his reply, this data is already in > the uevent file for every device. I sent a patch doing the symlink days ago.... I think it's still valuable, the patch is triviall and the symlink is a lot easier to deal with than parsing the uevent file. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html