Re: [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Nov 10 2014 - 17:49:11 EST


On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 08:06 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Adding Grant.

Oh, I forgot him ? oops...

> > 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.

Yes, I like this too. I'll give it a go some time this week (I'm off for
a day or two) unless somebody beats me to it.

Cheers,
Ben.

> 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.
> >
> >
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