update_node_properties(9)

💖 update_node_properties(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one is short, sweet, and very "tree surgery but make it kernel." 🌳✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

update_node_properties — adds the properties of np into the dup node (the one present in the live tree) and updates the parent of the children of np to be dup. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void update_node_properties (struct device_node *np , struct device_node
*dup );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• np — the node whose properties are being added to the live tree, periodt.
• dup — the node present in the live tree that’s getting updated, no cap.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/of/unittest.c — attach_node_and_children(9), unittest_data_add(9). iykyk 🔥

mwah 💋 this page lives under ./drivers/of, and it’s dated October 2026 — that’s the source/version + date tea, bestie. 🫶🌈