linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 1/2] device property: Add function to search for named child of device

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:59:47 +0300
From:	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To:	"Opensource [Adam Thomson]" <Adam.Thomson.Opensource@...semi.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J.Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"alsa-devel@...a-project.org" <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Support Opensource <Support.Opensource@...semi.com>,
	Sathyanarayana Nujella <sathyanarayana.nujella@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 1/2] device property: Add function to search
 for named child of device

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:50:01AM +0000, Opensource [Adam Thomson] wrote:
> 21 June 2016 12:42, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > > > +static inline bool acpi_data_node_match(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> > > > +					const char *name)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	return is_acpi_data_node(fwnode) ?
> > > > +		(!strcasecmp(to_acpi_data_node(fwnode)->name, name)) : false;
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > Looks fine to me.
> > >
> > > One question - is it expected that matching ACPI data nodes is always
> > > case insensitive?
> > 
> > That would not be a correct expectation in theory, although I don't think it
> > really matters in practice.
> 
> From my reading of the Hierarchical Data Extension and ACPI Spec, I thought
> that was the case (section 19.3.1 ASL Names - ASL names are not case-sensitive
> and will be converted to upper case). Am I misreading the documents/missing
> something else?

Those are names in the ASL code itself.

What we are talking here are actually just string values (name of the
data node).