of: Create unlocked versions of node and property add/remove functions
The DT overlay code will need to manipulate nodes and properties while already holding the devicetree lock, or on nodes that are not yet attached to the tree, but the current helper functions don't allow that. Extract the core behaviour from the accessors and create the following unlocked variants. The unlocked variants require either the lock to already be held or for the nodes to be detached from the tree. Changes to live nodes will not get updated in sysfs, so the caller must arrange for housekeeping to take place after dropping the lock. The new functions are: __of_add_property(), __of_remove_property(), __of_update_property(), __of_attach_node() and __of_detach_node(). Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> [Remove unnecessary diff hunks and rewrite commit text] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
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