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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: lists@nerdbynature.de, microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au,
	monstr@monstr.eu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device-tree: Drop properties with "/" in their name
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 23:51:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274363467.16617.1.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0958c243b32f5f77028a794a9ce0d55f9a12121e.1274272289.git.michael@ellerman.id.au>

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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:32 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Some bogus firmwares include properties with "/" in their name. This
> causes problems when creating the /proc/device-tree file system,
> because the slash is taken to indicate a directory.
> 
> We don't care about those properties, and we don't want to encourage
> them, so just throw them away when creating /proc/device-tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
> ---
> 
> Hi Christian, if you could test this new patch that'd be great, thanks!

And thanks to Christian for testing it:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15589

Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>


cheers

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-19 12:32 [PATCH] device-tree: Drop properties with "/" in their name Michael Ellerman
2010-05-20 13:51 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2010-06-13  7:47 ` Christian Kujau
2010-06-13  8:15   ` Michael Ellerman

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