On Sat, 2016-06-11 at 12:38 -0700, Frank Rowand wrote: > I chased through the history and found a 2.6.0-test5 announcement > which noted the patch from you which adds: > > of_find_node_by_path() > of_find_node_by_name() > of_find_node_by_type() > of_find_compatible_node() > > (And the patch is commit 394edd852a14 in the git recreation > of bitkeeper days, which is found at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git) > > That version of the functions uses a case insensitive compare for > devicetree node names. > > Do you remember why you chose to not use a case sensitive compare?
From memory, there were inconsistency in case on various earlier machines (notably old macs). I think that's the main reason. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
