[RFC PATCH v3 2/6] of: Make of_find_node_by_path() traverse /aliases for relative paths.

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 02:05:48PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 05-05-2011 21:02, David Daney wrote:
> 
> >Currently all paths passed to of_find_node_by_path() must begin with a
> >'/', indicating a full path to the desired node.
> 
> >Augment the look-up code so that if a path does *not* begin with '/',
> >the path is used as the name of an /aliases property.  The value of
> >this alias is then used as the full node path to be found.
> 
> >Signed-off-by: David Daney<ddaney at caviumnetworks.com>
> >---
> >  drivers/of/base.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> >diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
> >index 632ebae..1a0a83e 100644
> >--- a/drivers/of/base.c
> >+++ b/drivers/of/base.c
> [...]
> >@@ -348,14 +351,50 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_next_child);
> >  struct device_node *of_find_node_by_path(const char *path)
> >  {
> >  	struct device_node *np = allnodes;
> >+	struct device_node *aliases = NULL;
> >+	char *alias = NULL;
> >+	char *new_path = NULL;
> >
> >  	read_lock(&devtree_lock);
> >+
> >+	if (path[0] != '/') {
> >+		const char *ps;
> >+		aliases = of_find_node_by_path("/aliases");
> >+		if (!aliases)
> >+			goto out;
> >+
> >+		ps = strchr(path, '/');
> >+		if (ps) {
> >+			size_t len = ps - path;
> >+			alias = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
>    How about error handling?

Yes, please add error handling and repost.

Thanks,
g.