[PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Jan 2 16:59:58 EST 2007


From: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 22:15:50 +0100

> We also can keep the old names as compatibility accessors for
> PowerPC only for a while, until everything is converted -- SPARC
> can do the same then.  You can't really keep the old PowerPC names
> in kernel-wide code anyway, "get_property" is a way too generic
> name for that for example.

That's a simple change for PPC, sed 's/get_property/of_get_property//'
and that's what sparc used since the beginning of it's in-kernel
copy of the device tree implementation.



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