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:

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Hi all,

There were some murmurings on IRC last week about renaming the of_*()
routines.

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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".

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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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