Hi Niklas, On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 9:44 PM Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2024-03-09 22:28:47 +0300, Sergey Shtylyov wrote: > > On 3/9/24 6:53 PM, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > > > > > The driver used the OF node of the device itself when registering the > > > > s/OF/DT/, perhaps? > > I thought we referred to it as DT node when talking about .dts{i,o} > files and OF node when it was used inside the kernel? The infrastructure > around its called of_get_child_by_name() and of_node_put() for example. > And I believe OF is an abbreviation for Open Firmware (?). IIRC this is > because ACPI might also be in the mix somewhere and DT != ACPI :-) OF is indeed an abbreviation for Open Firmware... Originally, the of_*() code was written to interact with device trees provided by Open Firmware. Later, it was extended to work with flattened device trees (FDT) provided by something other than Open Firmware. > I'm happy to change this if I understood it wrong, if not I like to keep > it as is. ... but no real Open Firmware is involved on Renesas ARM platforms, so DT is more appropriate here. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds