From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:25:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1416363953.5704.19.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxGe6vg8SxwCHZ8HxzLzimQOAf8Q81wd5eO=x2LavD4dv81Rw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 15:18 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> >> So not much reactions here .. a bit more on IRC, where Olof
> suggested
> >> that rather than a file containing a path, we could use a symlink
> since
> >> the devtree is now in sysfs, so we can do relative links.
> >
> > +1 on this. That was part of the motivation to move DT into sysfs.
> >
> > Rob
>
> I had a patch that did exactly that. I wonder what happened to it...
>
> But regardless, as Frank said in his reply, this data is already in
> the uevent file for every device.
I sent a patch doing the symlink days ago.... I think it's still
valuable, the patch is triviall and the symlink is a lot easier to deal
with than parsing the uevent file.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-19 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-07 6:33 [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-07 6:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-10 5:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-10 14:06 ` Rob Herring
2014-11-10 22:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-13 1:10 ` [PATCH] drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an OF node Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-18 16:37 ` Rob Herring
2014-11-18 23:39 ` Jeremy Kerr
2014-11-18 23:53 ` Jeremy Kerr
2014-11-19 2:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-19 8:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-19 14:45 ` Rob Herring
2014-11-19 14:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-19 15:39 ` Rob Herring
2014-11-19 16:30 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-19 2:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-27 3:39 ` Greg KH
2014-11-27 6:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-18 15:18 ` [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node Grant Likely
2014-11-19 2:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2015-02-18 0:25 ` [PATCH 2/2 v3] drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an OF node Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-02-18 1:07 ` Rob Herring
2015-02-18 4:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-18 9:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-10 14:22 ` Rob Herring
2015-03-10 15:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-18 4:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-13 4:28 ` [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node Frank Rowand
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