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
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