linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Mega rename of device tree routines from of_*() to dt

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Date:	Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:07:20 -0700
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mips <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
	microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Mega rename of device tree routines from of_*() to dt_*()

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:55 PM, David Gibson
<david@...son.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:34:35AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Most of these are straight renames, but some have changed more
>> substantially. The routines for the flat tree have all become fdt_foo().
>
> I'm a little uneasy about using the same prefix as libfdt (fdt_foo())
> for routines that have a different implementation and different names
> / semantics to the libfdt routines.

I'd also be okay with either dtflat_ or flatdt_ for the prefix on
these routines.

g.
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