linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of: Make of_find_node_by

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Message-ID: <5329EFF0.6030400@wwwdotorg.org>
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:28:48 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
CC:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Matt Porter <matt.porter@...aro.org>,
	Koen Kooi <koen@...inion.thruhere.net>,
	Alison Chaiken <Alison_Chaiken@...tor.com>,
	Dinh Nguyen <dinh.linux@...il.com>,
	Jan Lubbe <jluebbe@...net.de>,
	Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@....com>,
	Michael Stickel <ms@...able.de>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@...il.com>,
	Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@...il.com>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Michael Bohan <mbohan@...eaurora.org>,
	Ionut Nicu <ioan.nicu.ext@....com>,
	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Matt Ranostay <mranostay@...il.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pete Popov <pete.popov@...sulko.com>,
	Dan Malek <dan.malek@...sulko.com>,
	Georgi Vlaev <georgi.vlaev@...sulko.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Make of_find_node_by_path() handle /aliases

On 03/18/2014 03:52 PM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Make of_find_node_by_path() handle aliases as prefixes.
> 
> Originally by David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>, but
> reworked according to remark by Grant Likely.
> 
> Handles all cases without allocating memory as requested by
> Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>

Why not just introduce a new function of_find_node_by_alias()? A single
unified function would make sense if the function did something like:
(1) find my path, and return if found (2) if not found, fall back to
searching /aliases. However, since this modified function takes 2
separate formats of input path based on whether it should search for an
alias or not, it seems like 2 separate functions would be a better API.
Perhaps the new API should simply be a wrapper around
of_find_node_by_path, once the alias has been found?
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