Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:05:49 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] of: change overlay apply input data from EDT to FDT |
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:53 PM, <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote: >> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com> >> >> Move duplicating and unflattening of an overlay flattened devicetree >> (FDT) into the overlay application code. To accomplish this, >> of_overlay_apply() is replaced by of_overlay_fdt_apply(). >> >> The copy of the FDT (aka "duplicate FDT") now belongs to devicetree >> code, which is thus responsible for freeing the duplicate FDT. The >> caller of of_overlay_fdt_apply() remains responsible for freeing the >> original FDT. >> >> The unflattened device tree (aka expanded device tree, EDT) now > > Not really a fan of a new acronym.
FWIW, it has already sneaked in:
$ git grep -w EDT -- drivers/of drivers/of/unittest.c: * will create pointers to the passed in FDT in the EDT.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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