Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964923AbXABWAA (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:00:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964946AbXABWAA (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:00:00 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50741 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964923AbXABV77 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:59:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:59:58 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20070102.135958.41636645.davem@davemloft.net> To: segher@kernel.crashing.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@laptop.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, wmb@firmworks.com, jg@laptop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <1167768494.6165.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 17 From: Segher Boessenkool 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/