[U-Boot] [RFC, PATCH v2 1/4] dm: rename device struct to udevice

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On 22 May 2014 14:43, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:34:33AM -1000, Simon Glass wrote:
>> +Tom
>>
>> Hi Heiko,
>>
>> On 22 May 2014 00:43, Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de> wrote:
>> > using UBI and DM together leads in compiler error, as
>> > both define a "struct device", so rename "struct device"
>> > in include/dm/device.h to "struct udevice", as we use
>> > linux code (MTD/UBI/UBIFS some USB code,...) and cannot
>> > change the linux "struct device"
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
>> > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>> > Cc: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
>>
>> I'm not 100% comfortable with this but if we really want to avoid
>> changing kernel code that moves into U-Boot it is either this or a
>> '#define device ldevice' at the top of the linux code/in a header. I'm
>> not sure which is preferable.
>>
>> If Tom decides to apply this, I'd like to request that it be done
>> soon, since it has wide impact on driver model code.
>>
>> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> I like it, I'm going to grab it Monday and I'm going to kick out -rc2 on
> Monday as well, which should be a semi-handy branching off point too
> then.

Thanks, that sounds good.

Regards,
Simon