[U-Boot] [PATCH] libfdt: introduce fdt type annotation for use by endian checkers

Stephen Warren
2012-10-30T22:24:05Z

On 10/30/2012 03:57 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> Projects such as linux and u-boot run sparse on libfdt. libfdt
> contains the notion of endianness via usage of endian conversion
> functions such as fdt32_to_cpu. As such, in order to pass endian
> checks, libfdt has to annotate its fdt variables as big endian.
> This patch does that ifdef __CHECKER__ (a symbol sparse defines),
> for two new fdt types: fdt32_t and fdt64_t, and subsequently
> silences warnings emitted by sparse when parsing libfdt.

Should libfdt patches be committed to the main dtc repository (which I
assume is also upstream for libfdt?) rather than U-Boot first?
Otherwise, if we want to bring in a new libfdt from upstream, that would
trash all the U-Boot-specific changes in U-Boot's copy of libfdt.