Re: [PATCH v3 07/15] devicetree: Add DeviceTree live tree representation

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 11:28:29AM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM David Gibson
> <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > +++ b/devicetree.py
> > > > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
> > > > > > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > > > > > > +"""devicetree - Non-flattened in-memory device tree representation in Python."""
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd forgotten about this but PyPI has Zephyr's python-devicetree
> > > > > > [1][2], which installs a top-level 'devicetree' package.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm not sure what to suggest. Would libfdt_devicetree be too awful?
> > > > >
> > > > > Right. I'm OK with libfdt_devicetree. David: do you have any
> > > > > objections?
> > > >
> > > > Don't love it, but can't quickly think of a better option.
> > >
> > > Would libfdt_tree be better?
> >
> > Not really.  The problem with all of the above is that they're making
> > this library which is about managing a non-flattened device tree a
> > part of the library/project/namespace that's explicitly about
> > flattened device trees.
> 
> Personally, I kinda liked "libfdt.devicetree" that Simon suggested
> (though my analysis says accomplishing that would be difficult).
> ...but I can also see David's objections to namespacing this under
> "libfdt". Does this mean "libfdt_devicetree" is out, too?

I wouldn't say it's "out".  Both options are adequate if we can't come
up with something better, I'm just not enthused.

> One other option is "dt_livetree". That matches the "livetree.c" that

Again, adequate but clunky.

> already exists in the source base. What do folks think about that? If
> we switch to this, should I move the ".py" file? In my draft v4 I
> still have it under "pylibfdt/", but I could move it to a
> "pylivetree/" directory...

How about "libpydt"?  I'd prefer to reserve "libdt" for a hypothetical
future cross-language live tree library.

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