On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 03:32:54PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: > Currently platforms/drivers needing to get the machine model name are > replicating the same snippet of code. In some case, the OF reference > counting is either missing or incorrect. > > This patch adds support to read the machine model name either using > the "model" or the "compatible" property in the device tree root node > to the core OF/DT code. > > This can be used to remove all the duplicate code snippets doing exactly > same thing later. > > Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]> > Cc: Frank Rowand <[email protected]> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/of/base.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/of.h | 6 ++++++ > 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+) > > Hi Rob, > > It would be good if we can target this for v4.10, so that we have no > dependencies to push PATCH 2/2 in v4.11
Applied. Rob
