linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of/fdt: Remove redundant kbasename function call

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Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 21:44:25 +0800
From:   Qi Zheng <arch0.zheng@...il.com>
To:     robh+dt@...nel.org, frowand.list@...il.com, robh@...nel.org
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of/fdt: Remove redundant kbasename function call

On 2020/5/12 下午11:49, Qi Zheng wrote:
> For version 1 to 3 of the device tree, this is the node full
> path as a zero terminated string, starting with "/". The
> following equation will not hold, since the node name has
> been processed in the fdt_get_name().
> 
> 	*pathp == '/'
> 
> For version 16 and later, this is the node unit name only
> (or an empty string for the root node). So the above
> equation will still not hold.
> 
> So the kbasename() is redundant, just remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <arch0.zheng@...il.com>
> ---
>   drivers/of/fdt.c | 2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> index 8a8e07a8f03d..ea31b2ae8474 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> @@ -643,8 +643,6 @@ int __init of_scan_flat_dt(int (*it)(unsigned long node,
>   	     offset = fdt_next_node(blob, offset, &depth)) {
>   
>   		pathp = fdt_get_name(blob, offset, NULL);
> -		if (*pathp == '/')
> -			pathp = kbasename(pathp);
>   		rc = it(offset, pathp, depth, data);
>   	}
>   	return rc;
> 

add Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>.