From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:21:04 -0800 > Currently all paths passed to of_find_node_by_path() must begin with a > '/', indicating a full path to the desired node. > > Augment the look-up code so that if a path does *not* begin with '/', > the path is used as the name of an /aliases property. The value of > this alias is then used as the full node path to be found. > > Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> But as the caller you sure as hell know whether you have a "/" prefixed name or not. Why complicate an incredibly well designed and simple function for something you can create another interface for?
