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From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: dsd@laptop.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] of/promtree: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:41:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110225224132.0c15eb8a@queued.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimc37=azh11sYYi6x7gTE=0ybud5tXgxa1TDUMT@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:06:06 -0700
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:42:34 -0700
> > Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> >> If firmware is buggy, then pkg2path must deal with it.  It is not
> >> okay for it to return NULL.  (I know that pkg2path is an OFW
> >> command, but in this context it really means the linux wrapper to
> >> pkg2path which has the semantics, "give me the unique, full and
> >> accurate path for this node").  If OFW pkg2path doesn't work, then
> >> the platform code must work around it.  I'm pushing back on this
> >> because I do not want to see platform workarounds in the common
> >> code.
> >
> > I'm fine with that, I just don't want to see BUG() happening that
> > early.  I think a workaround should be handled in common code.  I
> > agree that heroic workarounds for firmware bugs should be handled in
> > arch-specific pkg2path hooks, but a simple workaround in common code
> > is better than just crashing early in boot (imo).
> 
> Alright, you've swayed me a bit.  I've made this change and pushed it
> out to devicetree/experimental.  I've also picked up your other patch.
>  Let me know if it works for you.


Thanks, that looks good.  Feel free to push into next.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-26  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24 17:04 [PATCH v5] of/promtree: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness Grant Likely
2011-02-24 17:33 ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-24 19:42   ` Grant Likely
2011-02-24 20:01     ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-25  6:06       ` Grant Likely
2011-02-26  6:41         ` Andres Salomon [this message]
2011-02-24 23:27     ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-24 19:45 ` [PATCH v6] of/pdt: " Andres Salomon

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