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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>, Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>,
	Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@linaro.org>,
	Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@ti.com>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Device Tree Overlays Proposal (Was Re: capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2)
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:59:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509D8ADA.6040408@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=GYpbeKtW37Cj9cXr8F7F83d9Fgs-moqu9p6cOaPE1VxwbSg@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/08/2012 10:32 PM, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
...
> Alternatively to hashing, reading David Gibson's paper I followed,
> phandle is supposed to 'uniquely' identity node. I wonder why the node
> name itself is not sufficient to uniquely identify. The code that does
> the tree walking can then just strcmp the node name while it walks the
> tree instead of having to find a node with a phandle number.

Node names or node paths?

If you're talking node names, consider an SoC with two different I2C
controllers each attached to an I2C EEPROM with the same I2C address.
The nodes representing those EEPROMs might both get the name "eeprom@2c"
for example. The node paths should be unique though.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-09 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-05 20:40 [RFC] Device Tree Overlays Proposal (Was Re: capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2) Grant Likely
2012-11-05 21:40 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-11-05 21:40   ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-11-05 23:22   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-11-05 23:22     ` Tony Lindgren
2012-11-09 12:06     ` Grant Likely
2012-11-09 12:06       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-06  0:07   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-06  0:07     ` Grant Likely
2012-11-06 10:31   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-06 10:31     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 22:35   ` Ryan Mallon
2012-11-07 22:35     ` Ryan Mallon
2012-11-08 13:28     ` Koen Kooi
2012-11-08 13:28       ` Koen Kooi
2012-11-08 14:09       ` Timur Tabi
2012-11-08 14:09         ` Timur Tabi
2012-11-08 17:00       ` Mitch Bradley
2012-11-08 17:00         ` Mitch Bradley
2012-11-06 10:30 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-06 11:14   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-06 18:35     ` Tony Lindgren
2012-11-06 19:29       ` Russ Dill
2012-11-06 19:41         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-06 19:41           ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-06 22:17           ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-06 22:17             ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-06 19:34     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-06 20:45       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-06 20:50         ` Grant Likely
2012-11-07  8:06         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 15:33           ` Alan Tull
2012-11-07 15:33             ` Alan Tull
2012-11-09 17:03           ` Grant Likely
2012-11-07  8:13         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 10:19           ` Benoit Cousson
2012-11-07 10:19             ` Benoit Cousson
2012-11-07 11:02             ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 11:02               ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 11:12               ` Benoit Cousson
2012-11-07 11:12                 ` Benoit Cousson
2012-11-07 11:23                 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 11:23                   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-09 20:33               ` Grant Likely
2012-11-12 11:34                 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 13:01                   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-07 17:25             ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-07 22:10               ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 22:10                 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-08 10:36               ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-11-08 10:36                 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-11-09  5:32   ` Joel A Fernandes
2012-11-09 14:29     ` David Gibson
2012-11-10  3:15       ` Joel A Fernandes
2012-11-09 21:22     ` Grant Likely
2012-11-12 11:47       ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 11:47         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-13  3:59       ` Joel A Fernandes
2012-11-09 22:59     ` Stephen Warren [this message]
     [not found]   ` <-4237940489086529028@unknownmsgid>
     [not found]     ` <559B8433-67C3-4A1A-A5D6-859907655176@antoniou-consulting.com>
2012-11-10  3:36       ` Joel A Fernandes
2012-11-10  3:36         ` Joel A Fernandes
2012-11-12 12:48         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-13  2:28         ` David Gibson
2012-11-06 22:37 ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-06 22:37   ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-07  0:54   ` Mitch Bradley
2012-11-07  0:54     ` Mitch Bradley
2012-11-09 17:02     ` Grant Likely
2012-11-12 11:29       ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07  8:47   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 17:18     ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-07 22:08       ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-07 22:08         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-09 16:28   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-09 23:23     ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-09 23:40       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-12 10:53         ` Koen Kooi
2012-11-12 12:10       ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 12:10         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 16:52         ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-13  7:25           ` David Gibson
2012-11-13  8:09             ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-13  8:09               ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-13 12:24               ` Grant Likely
2012-11-13 13:38                 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-13 13:38                   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-15  4:57                   ` David Gibson
2012-11-13 17:10               ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-13 23:30               ` David Gibson
2012-11-13 23:30                 ` David Gibson
2012-11-14  0:00                 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-13 16:57             ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-13 18:10               ` Mitch Bradley
2012-11-13 18:10                 ` Mitch Bradley
2012-11-13 18:29                 ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-13 18:29                   ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-13 19:09                   ` Mitch Bradley
2012-11-13 19:11                     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-17 22:27       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-11-20 17:09         ` Grant Likely
2012-11-11 20:47     ` Rob Landley
2012-11-12 12:50       ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 16:54         ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-12 16:54           ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-12 11:23     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 16:49       ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-12 17:00         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 17:10           ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-12 17:19             ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 17:29               ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-12 17:38                 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-12 20:16       ` Russ Dill
2012-11-12 16:45     ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-09  2:26 ` David Gibson
2012-11-09 15:40   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-13  0:03     ` David Gibson
2012-11-13  0:03       ` David Gibson
2012-11-09 21:08   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-13  0:05     ` David Gibson
2012-11-13  0:05       ` David Gibson
2012-11-09 21:42   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-13  1:05     ` David Gibson
2012-11-13  1:05       ` David Gibson
2012-11-13  5:22       ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-13  6:54         ` David Gibson
2012-11-13  6:54           ` David Gibson
2012-11-09 22:57   ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-09 23:27     ` Grant Likely
2012-11-12 12:05     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-09 23:14   ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-09 23:14     ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-09 23:06 ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-09 23:32   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-12 11:03 ` Koen Kooi
2012-11-12 11:03   ` Koen Kooi

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