[PATCH] of: Add a reg-names property to name reg entries
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Oct 25 15:49:27 EST 2011
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:56:53AM +0200, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 12:19 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> >In general, I'm inclined to accept this patch as we talked about at
> >plumbers. However, this particular hunk gives me pause as there is
> >still the objection that Russell raised about the (ab)use of r->name
> >for insert the resource name.
> >
> >So, no I won't reject this patch, but I first what to have some idea
> >of what the plan is to migrate away from using r->name. Perhaps we
> >can talk about this tomorrow.
>
> OK, sure, let's discuss about that.
> But I still think that Russell's concern is not related at all with
> this patch. That means that it should be fixed separately if needed.
> It can be done before or after, but this is somehow orthogonal to
> the DT reg-names support problem.
Right, but this patch does add more infrastructure code manuipulating
that field, so I'd like to have a plan for fixing the problem before
committing this.
g.
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