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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of/pdt: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness (v3)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:47:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110224024708.GA12139@angua.secretlab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110223163442.2974bd66@queued.net>

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:34:42PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> Commit e2f2a93b changed dp->name from using the 'name' property to
> using package-to-path.  This fixed /proc/device-tree creation by
> eliminating conflicts between names (the 'name' property provides
> names like 'battery', whereas package-to-path provides names like
> '/foo/bar/battery@0', which we stripped to 'battery@0').  However,
> it also breaks of_device_id table matching.
> 
> The fix that we _really_ wanted was to keep dp->name based upon
> the name property ('battery'), but based dp->full_name upon
> package-to-path ('battery@0').  This patch does just that.
> 
> This also changes OLPC behavior to use the full result from
> package-to-path for full_name, rather than stripping the directory
> out.  In practice, the strings end up being exactly the same; this
> change saves time, code, and memory.
> 
> v2: combine two patches and revert of_pdt_node_name to original version
> v3: use dp->phandle instead of passing around node
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>

This addresses one of my comments on v2; but it doesn't address the
comment that the broken implementation of of_pdt_node_name for
non-sparc still remains, or am I missing something?

g.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-23 23:03 [PATCH] of/pdt: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness (v2) Andres Salomon
2011-02-23 23:28 ` Grant Likely
2011-02-24  0:16   ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-24  4:06     ` Grant Likely
2011-02-24  4:36       ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-24  5:38         ` Grant Likely
2011-02-24  6:38           ` [PATCH] of/pdt: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness (v4) Andres Salomon
2011-02-24  0:34   ` [PATCH] of/pdt: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness (v3) Andres Salomon
2011-02-24  2:47     ` Grant Likely [this message]
2011-02-24  2:51       ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-24  3:25         ` Grant Likely

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