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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] libfdt: Add support for using aliases in
	fdt_path_offset()
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:28:19AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> If the path doesn't start with '/' check to see if it matches some alias
> under "/aliases" and substitute the matching alias value in the path
> and retry the lookup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>

Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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