From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] of: change overlay apply input data from EDT to FDT Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:05:49 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1517194414-19932-1-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com> <1517194414-19932-2-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Rob Herring Cc: Frank Rowand , Rob Herring , Pantelis Antoniou , Pantelis Antoniou , "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:53 PM, wrote: >> From: Frank Rowand >> >> Move duplicating and unflattening of an overlay flattened devicetree >> (FDT) into the overlay application code. To accomplish this, >> of_overlay_apply() is replaced by of_overlay_fdt_apply(). >> >> The copy of the FDT (aka "duplicate FDT") now belongs to devicetree >> code, which is thus responsible for freeing the duplicate FDT. The >> caller of of_overlay_fdt_apply() remains responsible for freeing the >> original FDT. >> >> The unflattened device tree (aka expanded device tree, EDT) now > > Not really a fan of a new acronym. FWIW, it has already sneaked in: $ git grep -w EDT -- drivers/of drivers/of/unittest.c: * will create pointers to the passed in FDT in the EDT. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html