On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 06:43 -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 4:02 AM Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > What problem are you trying to solve? > > I'm looking at removing device_node.name and using full_name instead > (which now is only the local node name plus unit-address). This means > replacing of_node_cmp() (and still some strcmp) calls in a lot of > places. I need to use either strncmp or strncasecmp instead. > > > I would think making everything > > case insensitive would be the direction to go if you do anything. Least > > possibility of breaking existing platforms in that scenario. > > Really? Even if all the "new" arches are effectively case sensitive? > Anything using dtc and libfdt are (and json-schema certainly will be). > But I frequently say the kernel's job is not DT validation, so you > pass crap in, you get undefined results. I tend to agree with Grant. Let's put it this way: What is the drawback of being case insensitive ? Do we expect that there exist a case where we will want to distinguish between nodes that have the same name with a different case ? If not, I don't see the point of being strict about it. Cheers, Ben.
