Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Add of_path property for all devices with a node | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:25:53 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 15:18 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: > >> So not much reactions here .. a bit more on IRC, where Olof > suggested > >> that rather than a file containing a path, we could use a symlink > since > >> the devtree is now in sysfs, so we can do relative links. > > > > +1 on this. That was part of the motivation to move DT into sysfs. > > > > Rob > > I had a patch that did exactly that. I wonder what happened to it... > > But regardless, as Frank said in his reply, this data is already in > the uevent file for every device.
I sent a patch doing the symlink days ago.... I think it's still valuable, the patch is triviall and the symlink is a lot easier to deal with than parsing the uevent file.
Cheers, Ben.
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