On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:34:35AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 01:03 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > There were some murmurings on IRC last week about renaming the of_*() > > routines. > ... > > The thinking is that on many platforms that use the of_() routines > > OpenFirmware is not involved at all, this is true even on many powerpc > > platforms. Also for folks who don't know the OpenFirmware connection > > it reads as "of", as in "a can of worms". > ... > > So I'm hoping people with either say "YES this is a great idea", or "NO > > this is stupid". > > I'm still hoping, but so far it seems most people have got better things > to do, and of those that do have an opinion the balance is slightly > positive. > > So here's a first cut of a patch to add the new names. I've not touched > of_platform because that is supposed to go away. That will lead to some > odd looking code in the interim, but I think is the right approach. > > Most of these are straight renames, but some have changed more > substantially. The routines for the flat tree have all become fdt_foo(). I'm a little uneasy about using the same prefix as libfdt (fdt_foo()) for routines that have a different implementation and different names / semantics to the libfdt routines. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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