libfdt: Increase namespace-pollution paranoia

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 6:42 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 14:10 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
>> libfdt is supposed to easy to embed in projects all and sundry.
>> Often, it won't be practical to separate the embedded libfdt's
>> namespace from that of the surrounding project.  Which means there  
>> can
>> be namespace conflicts between even libfdt's internal/static  
>> functions
>> and functions or macros coming from the surrounding project's headers
>> via libfdt_env.h.
>>
>> This patch, therefore, renames a bunch of libfdt internal functions
>> and macros and makes a few other chances to reduce the chances of
>> namespace collisions with embedding projects.  Specifically:
>> 	- Internal functions (even static ones) are now named _fdt_*()
>>
>> 	- The type and (static) global for the error table in
>>          fdt_strerror() gain an fdt_ prefix
>>
>> 	- The unused macro PALIGN is removed
>>
>> 	- The memeq and streq macros are removed and open-coded in the
>>          users (they were only used once each)
>>
>> 	- Other macros gain an FDT_ prefix
>>
>> 	- To save some of the bulk from the previous change, an
>>          FDT_TAGALIGN() macro is introduced, where FDT_TAGALIGN(x) ==
>>          FDT_ALIGN(x, FDT_TAGSIZE)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>
> On a slightly unrelated note, are you planning to sync the in-kernel
> dtc/libfdt version with the upstream version anytime soon?

I know jon put an -rc, not sure if he plans to pick up the slew of  
patches for the next -rc or the next release, but it would be good to  
resync the in-kernel version for 2.6.27.

- k