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From: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:06:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL_JsqKG=vpeGKj3v-2VW9oGQsnmuYMHRfy6LuXDXE=ROjHT4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415596626.5769.14.camel@kernel.crashing.org>

Adding Grant.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:17 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 17:35 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 17:33 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>
>> > So I came up with this patch,
>>
>> And here is the actual patch, which might help :-) It's pretty trivial
>> and small...
>
> So not much reactions here .. a bit more on IRC, where Olof suggested
> that rather than a file containing a path, we could use a symlink since
> the devtree is now in sysfs, so we can do relative links.

+1 on this. That was part of the motivation to move DT into sysfs.

Rob

> That means keeping the legacy "devspec" files in the few places where
> they exist, possibly behind a deprecated-default-y config option (though
> we might never be able to deprecate them...), but there aren't many.
>
> Any preference either way ?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-10 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-07  6:33 [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-07  6:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-10  5:17   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-10 14:06     ` Rob Herring [this message]
2014-11-10 22:48       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-13  1:10       ` [PATCH] drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an OF node Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-18 16:37         ` Rob Herring
2014-11-18 23:39           ` Jeremy Kerr
2014-11-18 23:53             ` Jeremy Kerr
2014-11-19  2:35             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-19  8:38               ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-19 14:45                 ` Rob Herring
2014-11-19 14:49                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-19 15:39                     ` Rob Herring
2014-11-19 16:30                       ` Grant Likely
2014-11-19  2:30           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-27  3:39         ` Greg KH
2014-11-27  6:24           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-18 15:18       ` [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node Grant Likely
2014-11-19  2:25         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-02-18  0:25       ` [PATCH 2/2 v3] drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an OF node Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-02-18  1:07         ` Rob Herring
2015-02-18  4:57           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-18  9:50             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-10 14:22               ` Rob Herring
2015-03-10 15:11                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-18  4:57         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-13  4:28 ` [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node Frank Rowand

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