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

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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:48:42 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
Cc:	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node

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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