Re: [PATCH 3/8] sparc: prom: use property "name" directly to construct node names

[David Miller]

From: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed,  7 Nov 2018 16:31:46 -0600

> In preparation to remove direct accesses to the device_node.name
> pointer, retrieve the node name from the "name" property instead.
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

On some 32-bit sparcs, the OF runs in non-cached memory.

Sucking in the OF device tree take a signficant amount of the
boot time on such systems.

And these changes are going to make it even slower.

Please just put a wrapper around dp->name or whatever and use that,
instead of making more get property OF calls which can be very
expensive.