From: Jon Loeliger <jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
To: David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: libfdt: Implement property iteration functions
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:17:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NpMib-0001id-Pi@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100309063914.GA11655@yookeroo>
> For ages, we've been talking about adding functions to libfdt to allow
> iteration through properties. So, finally, here are some.
>
> I got bogged down on this for a long time because I didn't want to
> expose offsets directly to properties to the callers. But without
> that, attempting to make reasonable iteration functions just became
> horrible. So eventually, I settled on an interface which does now
> expose property offsets. fdt_first_property_offset() and
> fdt_next_property_offset() are used to step through the offsets of the
> properties starting from a particularly node offset. The details of
> the property at each offset can then be retrieved with either
> fdt_get_property_by_offset() or fdt_getprop_by_offset() which have
> interfaces similar to fdt_get_property() and fdt_getprop()
> respectively.
>
> No explicit testcases are included, but we do use the new functions to
> reimplement the existing fdt_get_property() function.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>
Applied.
jdl
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