Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

From: Mitch Bradley
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 15:12:28 EST




We could of course have the interface work either on a copy of the tree
or on a real OF (though that means changing things like get_property on
powerpc and fixing the gazillions of users) but I tend to think that
working on a copy always is more efficient.

The patch that I posted creates a copy in the virtual filesystem domain. So the efficiency issue is moot.

The filesystem domain copy is smaller than the in-memory tree, as it omits a lot of unnecessary fields.

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