From 3234aa4babd79bf92239409145db4fda2f505051 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 06:55:16 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fdt: Add a function to get the node offset of an alias

This simple function returns the node offset of a named alias.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
---
 include/fdtdec.h | 11 +++++++++++
 lib/fdtdec.c     | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/fdtdec.h b/include/fdtdec.h
index f454f7e217..856e6cf766 100644
--- a/include/fdtdec.h
+++ b/include/fdtdec.h
@@ -363,6 +363,17 @@ int fdtdec_add_aliases_for_id(const void *blob, const char *name,
 int fdtdec_get_alias_seq(const void *blob, const char *base, int node,
 			 int *seqp);
 
+/**
+ * Get the offset of the given alias node
+ *
+ * This looks up an alias in /aliases then finds the offset of that node.
+ *
+ * @param blob		Device tree blob (if NULL, then error is returned)
+ * @param name		Alias name, e.g. "console"
+ * @return Node offset referred to by that alias, or -ve FDT_ERR_...
+ */
+int fdtdec_get_alias_node(const void *blob, const char *name);
+
 /*
  * Get the name for a compatible ID
  *
diff --git a/lib/fdtdec.c b/lib/fdtdec.c
index 1b4ae9f417..eb5aa20526 100644
--- a/lib/fdtdec.c
+++ b/lib/fdtdec.c
@@ -365,6 +365,21 @@ int fdtdec_get_alias_seq(const void *blob, const char *base, int offset,
 	return -ENOENT;
 }
 
+int fdtdec_get_alias_node(const void *blob, const char *name)
+{
+	const char *prop;
+	int alias_node;
+	int len;
+
+	if (!blob)
+		return -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND;
+	alias_node = fdt_path_offset(blob, "/aliases");
+	prop = fdt_getprop(blob, alias_node, name, &len);
+	if (!prop)
+		return -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND;
+	return fdt_path_offset(blob, prop);
+}
+
 int fdtdec_check_fdt(void)
 {
 	/*
-- 
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