[PATCH 3.6.0-rc5] dt: introduce of_get_child to get child node by name.

Srinivas KANDAGATLA srinivas.kandagatla at st.com
Fri Sep 14 01:25:46 EST 2012


On 13/09/12 16:14, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/13/2012 05:10 AM, Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote:
>> From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at st.com>
>>
>> This patch introduces of_get_child function to get a child node by its
>> name in a given parent node.
>>
>> Without this patch each driver code has to iterate the parent and do
>> a string compare, However having of_get_child libary function would
>> avoid code duplication, errors and is more convenient.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at st.com>
> You forgot to Cc the drivers/of maintainers, Grant and Rob. I have here.

Oops...

>
> I can certainly see a use for this in many places; the "runtime
> interpreted power sequences" patch, and the regulator DT parsing code at
> least both could benefit from this.

There are at-least 7-8 places in the current kernel which could use this
function directly.

>



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