[U-Boot-Users] libfdt release?

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:16:01AM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:35:45PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> >[snip]
> >>>>>* Replace fdt_node_offset() with fdt_find_node_by_path().
> >>>>There is no fdt_node_offset(), fdt_path_offset() they mean, maybe.
> >>>>And why a gratuitous name change...?
> >>>Jerry?
> >>We needed the function (Detlev, IIRC).  The gratuitous name change was 
> >>intended to be more descriptive.  Perhaps if the correct original name 
> >>were used, we wouldn't have needed a gratuitous name change. ;-)
> >
> >Heh.
> >
> >Do bear in mind in future that the naming conventions in libfdt aren't
> >arbitrary.  I've tried to put "offset" in the name of everything that
> >returns a structure block offset as a hint to that return convention.
> >Additionally it's supposed to mitigate the big libfdt gotcha - that
> >offsets aren't handles, so the offset for a node can change if you
> >alter another node.
> 
> I proposed the name change some time ago on this list:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4639F61F.2050506%40grandegger.com&forum_name=u-boot-users
> 
> And they have been accepted and nobody complained ;-).

Well, of course not; I'm not on the u-boot list.

> The main reason 
> for the change was to make them (almost) compatible with the names used 
> by Linux. I think that's useful when we start using FDT for configuring 
> U-Boot.

Well, you have my reasons for *not* doing that, above.

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