From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic overlay failure in 4.19 & 4.20
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 21:14:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606011422.GG29739@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190605175059.GA29747@kroah.com>
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 07:50:59PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 01:02:18PM +0100, Phil Elwell wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think patch f96278810150 ("of: overlay: set node fields from
>> properties when add new overlay node") should be back-ported to 4.19,
>> for the reasons outlined below (briefly: without it, overlay fragments
>> that define phandles will appear to merged successfully, but they do
>> so without those phandles, causing any references to them to break).
>
>That patch does not properly apply to the 4.19.y tree. Can you provide
>a working backport that I can queue up to resolve this?
Greg,
That patch has contextual dependencies on 6f75118800 ("of: overlay:
validate overlay properties #address-cells and #size-cells"), I think it
would make sense to take 6f75118800 and then f96278810150 rather than a
backport.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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2019-06-05 12:02 ` Dynamic overlay failure in 4.19 & 4.20 Phil Elwell
2019-06-05 17:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-05 18:36 ` Phil Elwell
2019-06-06 1:14 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-06-06 19:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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