Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

David Miller
2007-01-01T08:54:11Z

From: David Kahn <dmk@flex.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:37:52 -0800

> IMHO, the directory entries in the filesystem
> should be in the form "node-name@unit-address" (eg: /pci@1f,0,
> "pci" is the node name, "@" is the separator character defined
> by IEEE 1275, and "1f,0" is the unit-address,
> which are always guaranteed to be unique. That's part of the
> reason we did a separate implementation. I'm not sure
> how we'll resolve that part of it or what problem that
> code is trying to resolve by changing the directory names
> that appear in the filesystem in a rather odd way. It's
> not possible to have two ambiguously fully qualified nodes in the OFW
> device tree, otherwise you would never be able to select
> a specific one by name.

Absolutely, and if you look that's how Sparc's openpromfs names
things now. It even goes through all of the trouble to make
sure the unit addressing matches what the Sparc OBP uses
precisely.