[PATCH v3] of: Create asm-generic/of.h and provide default of_node_to_nid()

[Grant Likely]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:48 PM, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:42:20 -0600
>
>> It protects against some later include file doing a #define
>> of_node_to_nid and thus resulting in an inconsistent definition.  If
>> some code tries to do this then the preprocessor will complain.  This
>> is the pattern that Stephen suggested.
>
> Also, it would be nice to unravel the "0" vs. "-1" default
> inconsistency.

Indeed.  I looked at it briefly, but it wasn't immediately clear what
the impact would be to switch powerpc over to -1, and it looked to me
like sparc depends on -1 to signify no node association.

g.