Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] of: Make of_find_node_by_path() traverse /aliases for relative paths.

[David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>]

On 03/08/2012 05:33 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:21:04 -0800, David Daney<ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > From: David Daney<david.daney@cavium.com>
> >
> > Currently all paths passed to of_find_node_by_path() must begin with a
> > '/', indicating a full path to the desired node.
> >
> > Augment the look-up code so that if a path does *not* begin with '/',
> > the path is used as the name of an /aliases property.  The value of
> > this alias is then used as the full node path to be found.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Daney<david.daney@cavium.com>
[...]
> All the aliases are already decoded at boot time now.  See
> of_alias_scan().  Instead of open-coding this, you can add an
> of_alias_lookup() function something like this (untested):
After objections from davem, and a bit of thought, I already indicated 
on a different branch of this thread that we should drop this patch.
I have improved my code so that it is no longer needed.

Thanks,
David Daney