[U-Boot] [RFC, PATCH v2 1/4] dm: rename device struct to udevice

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:34:33AM -1000, Simon Glass wrote:
> +Tom
> 
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> On 22 May 2014 00:43, Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de> wrote:
> > using UBI and DM together leads in compiler error, as
> > both define a "struct device", so rename "struct device"
> > in include/dm/device.h to "struct udevice", as we use
> > linux code (MTD/UBI/UBIFS some USB code,...) and cannot
> > change the linux "struct device"
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
> > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> 
> I'm not 100% comfortable with this but if we really want to avoid
> changing kernel code that moves into U-Boot it is either this or a
> '#define device ldevice' at the top of the linux code/in a header. I'm
> not sure which is preferable.
> 
> If Tom decides to apply this, I'd like to request that it be done
> soon, since it has wide impact on driver model code.
> 
> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

I like it, I'm going to grab it Monday and I'm going to kick out -rc2 on
Monday as well, which should be a semi-handy branching off point too
then.

-- 
Tom
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