From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Use embedded libfdt in the bootwrapper
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:27:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <475DCB45.3090306@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475DC966.6070301@freescale.com>
Scott Wood wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:32:17AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> How does using offsets as devps work if a devp was previously
>>> acquired to a node that has to be moved due to a change later made
>>> in an earlier part of the tree?
>>
>> It doesn't; don't do that. I just don't think truly persistent
>> phandles are worth the code complexity to implement them.
[snip]
> It breaks the extremely common and useful usage of:
>
> devp = create node;
> setprop(devp, "foo", something);
> setprop(devp, "bar", something);
BTW, there's code in devtree.c with your name on it that does exactly
this. :-)
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-10 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-10 3:23 [0/3] Merge libfdt into the bootwrapper David Gibson
2007-12-10 3:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] Kill flatdevtree.c David Gibson
2007-12-10 3:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] Use embedded libfdt in the bootwrapper David Gibson
2007-12-10 17:32 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-10 23:10 ` David Gibson
2007-12-10 23:19 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-10 23:27 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-12-10 23:32 ` David Gibson
2007-12-10 3:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] Merge libfdt upstream source David Gibson
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