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SubjectRe: [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@caviumnetworks.com>, but
> reworked according to remark by Grant Likely.
>
> Handles all cases without allocating memory as requested by
> Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.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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