From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
paulus@samba.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Consolidate of_find_property
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:12:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1177463538.14873.179.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8ef1d22d218c74620bc38ed9d35830e@kernel.crashing.org>
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 02:43 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> The OF standard doesn't allow upper case in property
> names at all.
Ok, fair enough, but in practice, they exist :-)
> > I don't think we would take much risk on ppc by
> > using strncasecmp but it shouldn't be necessary...
>
> There are some examples where upper case is actually
> used in property names, unfortunately. These can
> be solved by renaming/copying those properties to
> all lower case in a bootwrapper, or by strcmp() to
> the "cased" string, or by strcasecmp(). I for one
> don't like either option, you figure it out ;-)
Oh well, I don't care either way though fixup from bootwrapper doesn't
appeal to me at all...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-25 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 0:52 [PATCH 1/6] [POWERPC] get_property returns const Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 0:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 0:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] [POWERPC] Rename device_is_compatible to of_device_is_compatible Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 0:56 ` [PATCH 4/6] [POWERPC] Rename prom_n_addr_cells to of_n_addr_cells Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 0:57 ` [PATCH 5/6] [POWERPC] Rename prom_n_size_cells to of_n_size_cells Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 0:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] [POWERPC] make struct property's value a void * Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 3:37 ` David Miller
2007-04-03 15:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-03 12:24 ` [PATCH 01/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: include Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:26 ` [PATCH 02/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: arch/powerpc/kernel Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:28 ` [PATCH 03/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: arch/powerpc/mm Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:30 ` [PATCH 04/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: arch/powerpc/sysdev Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:31 ` [PATCH 05/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:32 ` [PATCH 06/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:35 ` [PATCH 07/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:37 ` [PATCH 08/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: arch/powerpc/platforms Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:39 ` [PATCH 09/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: sound Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:40 ` [PATCH 10/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers/macintosh Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:42 ` [PATCH 11/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers/char Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:43 ` [PATCH 12/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers/net Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:45 ` [PATCH 13/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers/video Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:46 ` [PATCH 14/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers/scsi Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:49 ` [PATCH 15/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:50 ` [PATCH 16/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: the last one Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 12:52 ` [PATCH 17/17] [POWERPC] Remove get_property Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 13:05 ` [PATCH] [SPARC/64] " Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 13:24 ` [PATCH] [SPARC/64] Make device_node name and type const Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-12 4:19 ` [PATCH,RFC] Split out common parts of prom.h Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-12 4:25 ` David Miller
2007-04-12 16:13 ` Kumar Gala
2007-04-12 19:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-12 5:34 ` [PATCH] Start split out of common open firmware code Stephen Rothwell
[not found] ` <20070424223245.78f4fdfb.sfr@canb.auug .org.au>
2007-04-12 5:41 ` David Miller
2007-04-12 5:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-12 6:25 ` David Miller
2007-04-12 6:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-12 6:40 ` David Miller
2007-04-12 7:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-23 7:43 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-23 18:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-24 12:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] " Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-24 12:38 ` [PATCH 2/6] Consolidate of_device_is_compatible Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-24 13:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-24 23:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-25 4:23 ` David Miller
2007-04-24 12:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] Consolidate of_find_property Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-24 13:41 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 1:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-25 2:10 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 4:31 ` David Miller
2007-04-25 5:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-25 13:13 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 17:46 ` Matt Sealey
2007-04-25 19:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 22:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-25 22:24 ` David Miller
2007-04-25 22:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-25 23:13 ` David Miller
2007-04-25 23:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 23:28 ` David Miller
2007-04-25 23:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-26 5:54 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-26 5:58 ` David Miller
2007-04-25 0:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-25 0:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 1:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-04-25 2:03 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 4:24 ` David Miller
2007-04-24 12:40 ` [PATCH 4/6] Consolidate of_get_parent Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-24 14:42 ` Loeliger Jon-LOELIGER
2007-04-26 1:34 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-24 12:42 ` [PATCH 5/6] Consolidate of_get_next_child Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-24 12:43 ` [PATCH 6/6] Consolidate of_find_node_by routines Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-25 0:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-24 13:27 ` [PATCH 1/6] Start split out of common open firmware code Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-24 14:47 ` Loeliger Jon-LOELIGER
2007-04-24 18:04 ` David Miller
2007-04-24 18:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-24 19:14 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-04-25 0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-25 1:03 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 4:29 ` David Miller
2007-04-25 13:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-25 0:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 1:51 ` Josh Boyer
2007-04-25 2:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 4:27 ` David Miller
2007-04-25 13:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-24 23:35 ` David Miller
2007-04-12 6:58 ` [PATCH,RFC] Split out common parts of prom.h Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-12 21:41 ` [PATCH] [SPARC/64] Make device_node name and type const David Miller
2007-04-12 21:42 ` [PATCH] [SPARC/64] Remove get_property David Miller
2007-04-27 3:41 ` [PATCH] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: partial drivers Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-03 17:36 ` [PATCH 01/17] [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: include Olof Johansson
2007-04-05 1:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-03 15:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] [POWERPC] make struct property's value a void * Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-03 18:28 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 11:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-04 19:21 ` David Miller
2007-04-05 1:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-05 18:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-05 23:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-05 23:12 ` David Miller
2007-04-05 23:26 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-09 18:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-09 22:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-09 23:17 ` David Miller
2007-04-27 4:32 ` [PATCH] Partialially revert a7edd0e676d51145ae634a2acf7a447e319200fa Stephen Rothwell
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