Subject: Re: case sensitivity for devicetree node names

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 08:05:43 +1000

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.