[PATCH v6 2/2] of: Make of_find_node_by_path() traverse /aliases for relative paths.

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:59 AM, David Daney <david.daney at cavium.com> wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 05:33 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:21:04 -0800, David Daney<ddaney.cavm at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> From: David Daney<david.daney at cavium.com>
>>>
>>> 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<david.daney at cavium.com>
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> All the aliases are already decoded at boot time now.  See
>> of_alias_scan().  Instead of open-coding this, you can add an
>> of_alias_lookup() function something like this (untested):
>>
>
> After objections from davem, and a bit of thought, I already indicated on a
> different branch of this thread that we should drop this patch.
>
> I have improved my code so that it is no longer needed.

Okay.