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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] of: Make of_find_node_by_path() handle /aliases
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On Thu, 22 May 2014 18:14:38 -0700, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/21/2014 6:16 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 May 2014 19:41:22 -0700, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 5/18/2014 2:27 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 16 May 2014 11:54:44 +0100, Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 15 May 2014 19:51:17 -0700, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On 5/13/2014 7:58 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> >>>>>> Make of_find_node_by_path() handle aliases as prefixes. To make this
> >>>>>> work the name search is refactored to search by path component instead
> >>>>>> of by full string. This should be a more efficient search, and it makes
> >>>>>> it possible to start a search at a subnode of a tree.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
> >>>>>> [grant.likely: Rework to not require allocating at runtime]
> >>>>>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>> drivers/of/base.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >>>>>> 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
> >>>>>> index 6e240698353b..60089b9a3014 100644
> >>>>>> --- a/drivers/of/base.c
> >>>>>> +++ b/drivers/of/base.c
> >>>>>> @@ -771,9 +771,38 @@ struct device_node *of_get_child_by_name(const struct device_node *node,
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_child_by_name);
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> +static struct device_node *__of_find_node_by_path(struct device_node *parent,
> >>>>>> + const char *path)
> >>>>>> +{
> >>>>>> + struct device_node *child;
> >>>>>> + int len = strchrnul(path, '/') - path;
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> + if (!len)
> >>>>>> + return parent;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (!len) is true if the the final character of the path passed into of_find_node_by_path()
> >>>>> was "/". Strictly speaking, ->full_name will never end with "/", so the return value
> >>>>> should be NULL, indicating that the match fails.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ah, good catch. I should add a test case for that.
> >>>
> >>> In my testing this looks okay. The while loop that calls into
> >>> __of_find_node_by_path() looks like this:
> >>>
> >>> while (np && *path == '/') {
> >>> path++; /* Increment past '/' delimiter */
> >>> np = __of_find_node_by_path(np, path);
> >>> path = strchrnul(path, '/');
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> If the path ends with a '/', then the loop will go around one more time.
> >>> The pointer will be incremented to point at the null character and len
> >>> will be null because strchrnul() will point at the last item.
> >>
> >> Yes, that was my point. The old version of of_find_node_by_path() would not
> >> find a match if the path ended with a "/" (unless the full path was "/").
> >> This patch series changes the behavior to be a match.
> >>
> >> I will reply to this email with an additional patch that restores the
> >> original behavior.
> >>
> >> If you move the additional test cases you provide below and the test cases
> >> in patch 3 to the beginning of the series, you can see the before and after
> >> behavior of adding patch 1 and patch 2.
> >
> > Ah, I see. That raises the question about what the behaviour /should/
> > be. Off the top of my head, matching against a trailing '/' seems to be
> > okay. Are there situations that you see or can think of where matching
> > would be the wrong thing to do?
>
> I have not thought of a case where matching against a trailing '/' would
> hurt anything. It just seemed better to be consistent in naming.
>

I've gone ahead and merged in the trailing '/' fix. It can be relaxed
later if deemed important.

g.



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