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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: libfdt: Correctly handle versions > 17
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:50:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ImqYY-0002ns-Bm@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:22:12 +1100." <20071030022212.GB30041@localhost.localdomain>

So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:
> If future dtb version > 17 are defined, that are still backwards
> compatible with v16, libfdt will of course be able to read and
> understand them.  However, when modifying such a tree, it can't
> guarantee that it won't clobber additional structure from the new
> version which it doesn't know about.  Therefore, before making
> modifications to a tree of version >17, we must change it's version to
> be exactly 17.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Applied.

jdl

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-30 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-30  2:22 libfdt: Correctly handle versions > 17 David Gibson
2007-10-30 12:50 ` Jon Loeliger [this message]

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