From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Reza Arbab Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] drivers/of: do not add memory for unavailable nodes Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 20:51:08 -0500 Message-ID: <20161023015107.527l4fvnh2nrup5u@arbab-vm> References: <1475778995-1420-1-git-send-email-arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1475778995-1420-3-git-send-email-arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <2344394.NlaWgtFOqB@new-mexico> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2344394.NlaWgtFOqB@new-mexico> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Alistair Popple , Michael Ellerman Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Rob Herring , Frank Rowand , Andrew Morton , Stewart Smith , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tang Chen , linux-mm@kvack.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Bharata B Rao , Nathan Fontenot List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Alistair, On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:22:54PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote: >>From what I can tell it seems that kernels without this patch will try >and use this memory even if it is marked in the device-tree as >status="disabled" which could lead to problems for older kernels when >we start exporting this property from firmware. > >Arguably this might not be such a problem in practice as we probably >don't have many (if any) existing kernels that will boot on hardware >exporting these properties. Yes, I think you've got it right. >However given this patch seems fairly independent perhaps it is worth >sending as a separate fix if it is not going to make it into this >release? Michael, If this set as a whole is going to miss the release, would it be helpful for me to resend 1/5 and 2/5 as a separate set? They are the minimum needed to prevent the possible forward compatibility issue Alistair describes. -- Reza Arbab -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org