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On 12/06/2015 03:54 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 14:28 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>> Do you plan to respin the OF parts at least soon? There's another
>> problem Guenter found that of_fdt_unflatten_tree is not re-entrant due
>> to "depth" being static and this series fixes that. So I'd rather
>> apply this and avoid adding a mutex if possible.
>
> Gavin is on vacation until next year.
>

That is a bit more than the timeline I am looking for.

Rob, any chance to accept my patch for now ? After all, it can be
reverted after the rework is complete, and it would be easier
to apply to earlier kernels.

Thanks,
Guenter