From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@linaro.org>,
Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
devicetree-spec@vger.kernel.org,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: DT case sensitivity
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:52:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180824165242.GW24439@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_Jsq+VnhT_4H4yECWsuXnmpQRnSHNRXAohRYds1LxcRjUHkw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:14:01AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> Another question: Is there ever a case where the node name in the path
> aka 'driver-name' doesn't match the 'name' property? I think this
> generally can't happen on FDT as the 'name' property is generated when
> we unflatten it though I suppose one could craft an FDT with name
> properties.
In Open Firmware, it *is* the "name" property :-)
> There's also various places in the kernel that check for a NULL name
> which doesn't seem like it could happen either other than the root
> node.
In Open Firmware the root node is required to have a "name" property, too.
There are systems that violate that rule (as with most rules...)
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-24 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-23 0:47 DT case sensitivity Rob Herring
2018-08-23 1:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-23 1:26 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-23 1:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-23 9:02 ` Grant Likely
2018-08-23 11:43 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-23 11:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-23 11:56 ` Grant Likely
2018-08-23 12:08 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-23 12:48 ` Grant Likely
2018-08-23 12:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-08-24 15:14 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-24 16:52 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2018-08-23 12:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-08-23 21:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-24 5:39 ` Michael Ellerman
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