Re: Call for testing: device nodes as kobjects

[Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:48:22PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Could I get some testing support please? I've applied the patch that
>> makes device nodes into kobjects into the following branch and build
>> tested it on a bunch of platforms. What I need now is boot testing on
>> different architectures.
>>
>> If you can build this tree and make sure it doesn't break your
>> platforms with OF support I would greatly appreciate it.
>>
>> Also, if you turn off CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE, a symlink will be
>> created to the /sys/firmware  representation which should be
>> functionally identical. For those of you using tools that read
>> /proc/device-tree (like kexec), I would also appreciate if you can
>> test that those tools still work with CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE turned
>> off.
>>
>> git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux devicetree/experimental
>
> I gave it a quick test on i.MX53 (qsb) and i.MX27 (phycore i.MX27).
> Both seem to work just normally. I also made a
>
> diff -urN /proc/device-tree /sys/firmware/ofw/device-tree
>
> with CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE enabled (so no symlink). Indeed both
> trees are identical.
>
> So:
>
> Tested-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>

Great, thanks!

g.