Re: RFC: Mega rename of device tree routines from of_*() to dt_*()

[David Gibson]

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.

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