From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 867D51A0924 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2015 07:47:16 +1000 (AEST) Message-ID: <1435700814.1475.15.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 40/42] drivers/of: Allow to specify root node in of_fdt_unflatten_tree() From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Grant Likely Cc: Gavin Shan , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, panto@antoniou-consulting.com, robherring2@gmail.com Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 07:46:54 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20150630180652.198E2C4063C@trevor.secretlab.ca> References: <1433400131-18429-1-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1433400131-18429-41-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150630180652.198E2C4063C@trevor.secretlab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 19:06 +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > It may be time to dump the special allocation of fdt.c entirely and > treat all nodes the same way, with name and properties all allocated > with normal kmallocs.... Investigation is needed to figure out if this > is feasible. kmalloc isn't available early enough Cheers, Ben.