RFC: Mega rename of device tree routines from of_*() to dt_*()
David Daney
ddaney at caviumnetworks.com
Thu Nov 25 04:00:46 EST 2010
On 11/24/2010 06:03 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There were some murmurings on IRC last week about renaming the of_*()
> routines. I was procrastinating at the time and said I'd have a look at
> it, so here I am.
>
> The thinking is that on many platforms that use the of_() routines
> OpenFirmware is not involved at all, this is true even on many powerpc
> platforms. Also for folks who don't know the OpenFirmware connection it
> reads as "of", as in "a can of worms".
>
> Personally I'm a bit ambivalent about it, the OF name is a bit wrong so
> it would be nice to get rid of, but it's a lot of churn.
>
> So I'm hoping people with either say "YES this is a great idea", or "NO
> this is stupid".
>
> As step one I've just renamed as many routines as I could find to see
> what the resulting patch looks like, so we can quantify the churn. I
> also did device.of_node, which is used quite a bit.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> of -> dt most places I could think of (done mechanically):
>
[...]
> drivers/of/address.c | 114 ++++++------
> drivers/of/base.c | 14 +-
> drivers/of/device.c | 36 ++--
> drivers/of/fdt.c | 4 +-
> drivers/of/gpio.c | 32 ++--
> drivers/of/irq.c | 4 +-
> drivers/of/of_i2c.c | 18 +-
> drivers/of/of_mdio.c | 16 +-
> drivers/of/of_spi.c | 12 +-
> drivers/of/pdt.c | 4 +-
> drivers/of/platform.c | 212 ++++++++++----------
Well, not that I care one way or the other, but for consistency you
should change all these directory and file names as well.
David Daney
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