On 11/18/16 06:46, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 03:32:54PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: >> Currently platforms/drivers needing to get the machine model name are >> replicating the same snippet of code. In some case, the OF reference >> counting is either missing or incorrect. >> >> This patch adds support to read the machine model name either using >> the "model" or the "compatible" property in the device tree root node >> to the core OF/DT code. >> >> This can be used to remove all the duplicate code snippets doing exactly >> same thing later. >> >> Cc: Rob Herring <robh...@kernel.org> >> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.l...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> >> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com> >> --- >> drivers/of/base.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> include/linux/of.h | 6 ++++++ >> 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+) >> >> Hi Rob, >> >> It would be good if we can target this for v4.10, so that we have no >> dependencies to push PATCH 2/2 in v4.11 > > Applied. > > Rob >
A little fast on the trigger Rob. -Frank