[PATCH] of/pdt: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness (v3)
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Feb 24 13:47:08 EST 2011
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 at 0', which we stripped to 'battery at 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 at 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 at 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.
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