From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Rowand Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] of: change overlay apply input data from EDT to FDT Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:13:11 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1517194414-19932-1-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com> <1517194414-19932-2-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven , Rob Herring Cc: Rob Herring , Pantelis Antoniou , Pantelis Antoniou , "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 01/29/18 07:05, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Rob Herring wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:53 PM, wrote: >>> From: Frank Rowand >>> >>> Move duplicating and unflattening of an overlay flattened devicetree >>> (FDT) into the overlay application code. To accomplish this, >>> of_overlay_apply() is replaced by of_overlay_fdt_apply(). >>> >>> The copy of the FDT (aka "duplicate FDT") now belongs to devicetree >>> code, which is thus responsible for freeing the duplicate FDT. The >>> caller of of_overlay_fdt_apply() remains responsible for freeing the >>> original FDT. >>> >>> The unflattened device tree (aka expanded device tree, EDT) now >> >> Not really a fan of a new acronym. > > FWIW, it has already sneaked in: > > $ git grep -w EDT -- drivers/of > drivers/of/unittest.c: * will create pointers to the passed in FDT in the EDT. Rob will be glad to know that this comment is removed by this patch series. :-) > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > -- 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