On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:16:41PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:
>
> > No; use an alias in the aliases node. That is what aliases is designed
> > for. Something like 'index' is a reinvention of the wheel.
>
> Do aliases work in reverse? That is, if I have a pointer to a
> device node, can I look up its alias directly? Or do I have to scan
> the aliases node and do a comparison of each phandle, one at a time,
> until I find a match? And when I find a match, will I need to do
> sscanf() in order to extract the actual index value from the
> property?
Aliases aren't trivially reversible, but it shouldn't be too hard to
write a helper function which will do the scan and parse you describe.
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