From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: dtc: Assume properties preced subnodes in the flattened tree
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:41:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ITe57-0008ED-J4@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:43:03 +1000." <20070904004303.GC20549@localhost.localdomain>
So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:
> With kernel commit eff2ebd207af9f501af0ef667a7d14befcb36c1b, we
> clarified that in the flattened tree format, a particular nodes
> properties are required to precede its subdnodes.
>
> At present however, both dtc and libfdt will process trees which don't
> meet this condition. This patch simplifies the code for
> fdt_get_property() based on assuming that constraint. dtc continues
> to be able to handle such an invalid tree - on the grounds that it's
> useful for dtc to be able to correct such a broken tree - but this
> patch adds a warning when this condition is not met while reading a
> flattened tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Applied.
Thanks,
jdl
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2007-09-04 0:43 dtc: Assume properties preced subnodes in the flattened tree David Gibson
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