Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] fdtput: Follow an alias when creating nodes with -p

[Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>]

Hi Simon,

On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:34:18 -0600
Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:

> A node path can start with an alias, such as serial0/sub. fdtput allows
> this when writing to an existing node, but -p requires the path to
> start with '/', so it cannot create nodes below an alias:
> 
>    $ fdtput -cp test.dtb serial0/sub
>    Error at 'serial0/sub': FDT_ERR_BADPATH
> 
> When the path does not start with '/', look up its first component as an
> alias and create any missing nodes below the node which the alias points
> to. A path which starts with neither '/' nor an alias is still
> rejected.
> 
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> ---
> 

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>

Best regards,
Hervé