On 06/11/16 15:05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2016-06-11 at 12:38 -0700, Frank Rowand wrote: >> I chased through the history and found a 2.6.0-test5 announcement >> which noted the patch from you which adds: >> >> of_find_node_by_path() >> of_find_node_by_name() >> of_find_node_by_type() >> of_find_compatible_node() >> >> (And the patch is commit 394edd852a14 in the git recreation >> of bitkeeper days, which is found at >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git) >> >> That version of the functions uses a case insensitive compare for >> devicetree node names. >> >> Do you remember why you chose to not use a case sensitive compare? > >>From memory, there were inconsistency in case on various earlier > machines (notably old macs). I think that's the main reason. > > Cheers, > Ben. Is there a kernel config option (or a small set of config options) that would identify the affected machines? It would be ok if the option(s) also included some non-affected machines. That way we could use the case insensitive compare for a small set of machines. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-spec" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
