Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] of: changesets: Introduce changeset helper methods

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Pantelis,

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Pantelis Antoniou
<pantelis.antoniou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Changesets are very powerful, but the lack of a helper API
> makes using them cumbersome. Introduce a simple copy based
> API that makes things considerably easier.
>
> To wit, adding a property using the raw API.
>
>         struct property *prop;
>         prop = kzalloc(sizeof(*prop)), GFP_KERNEL);
>         prop->name = kstrdup("compatible");
>         prop->value = kstrdup("foo,bar");
>         prop->length = strlen(prop->value) + 1;
>         of_changeset_add_property(ocs, np, prop);
>
> while using the helper API
>
>         of_changeset_add_property_string(ocs, np, "compatible",
>                         "foo,bar");

What about removing properties?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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