[PATCH 0/4] Removing full paths from DT full_name

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Tue Aug 8 09:15:03 AEST 2017


On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> This series is the last steps to remove storing the full path for every
> DT node. Instead, we can create full path strings dynamically as needed
> with printf %pOF specifiers (commit ce4fecf1fe15). There are a number of
> remaining direct users of full_name after this series. I don't believe
> there should be any functional impact for those users with the change to
> only the node name (+unit-address). The majority are for struct
> resource.name. This should only affect /proc/iomem display.
>
> Patches 1 and 2 can be applied now for 4.14. For patches 3 and 4, my
> target is 4.15 after all the dependencies have been merged.
>
> PPC folks, Please test! The PPC parts are untested. A git branch with
> all the dependencies is here[1].

PPC folks, any chance to test this?

Rob


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