Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:13:02 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] of/fdt: only store the device node basename in full_name |
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Hi Rob,
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote: > With dependencies on a statically allocated full path name converted to > use %pOF format specifier, we can store just the basename of node, and > the unflattening of the FDT can be simplified. > > This commit will affect the remaining users of full_name. After > analyzing these users, the remaining cases should only change some print > messages. The main users of full_name are providing a name for struct > resource. The resource names shouldn't be important other than providing > /proc/iomem names.
I guess the plan is to get rid in a subsequent step of all calls to kbasename() on a full name, which is now futile?
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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