Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] of: change overlay apply input data from EDT to FDT | From | Frank Rowand <> | Date | Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:13:11 -0800 |
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On 01/29/18 07:05, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:53 PM, <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote: >>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com> >>> >>> Move duplicating and unflattening of an overlay flattened devicetree >>> (FDT) into the overlay application code. To accomplish this, >>> of_overlay_apply() is replaced by of_overlay_fdt_apply(). >>> >>> The copy of the FDT (aka "duplicate FDT") now belongs to devicetree >>> code, which is thus responsible for freeing the duplicate FDT. The >>> caller of of_overlay_fdt_apply() remains responsible for freeing the >>> original FDT. >>> >>> The unflattened device tree (aka expanded device tree, EDT) now >> >> Not really a fan of a new acronym. > > FWIW, it has already sneaked in: > > $ git grep -w EDT -- drivers/of > drivers/of/unittest.c: * will create pointers to the passed in FDT in the EDT.
Rob will be glad to know that this comment is removed by this patch series.
:-)
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > 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 >
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