[PATCH 07/22] OF: base: sync of_find_node_by_path with linux OF API

[Sebastian Hesselbarth]

On 06/18/2013 10:13 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:29:52PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> Barebox of_find_node_by_path requires a node to be passed as start node
>> to start searching. Linux OF API does not pass this node and no current
>> user of it in barebox is passing anything else than the root node.
>> Therefore, the device_node argument is removed and all current users of
>> that function are updated to reflect the API change.
>
> This is a patch I'm not quite happy with. devicetree is such a nice data
> structure that it can be useful for other purposes than just a
> singular tree for describing the hardware layout.
>
> Maybe we should rename the current implementatiion to
> of_find_node_by_path_from() and add a of_find_node_by_path() which calls
> this with root_node as first argument?

Agree, I droped a similar patch removing root node passing from
of_print_cmdline() because I realized that root_node is only for the
installed device tree.

Will have in mind for a v2.

Sebastian