From: Rob Herring <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 16:31:46 -0600
> In preparation to remove direct accesses to the device_node.name > pointer, retrieve the node name from the "name" property instead. > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]> On some 32-bit sparcs, the OF runs in non-cached memory. Sucking in the OF device tree take a signficant amount of the boot time on such systems. And these changes are going to make it even slower. Please just put a wrapper around dp->name or whatever and use that, instead of making more get property OF calls which can be very expensive.
