linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Input: twl6040-vibra: fix child-node lookup

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Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:39:48 +0100
From:   "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Input: twl6040-vibra: fix child-node lookup

Hi,

> Am 13.11.2017 um 15:19 schrieb Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-11-11 17:43, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>> Fix child-node lookup during probe, which ended up searching the whole
>>> device tree depth-first starting at parent rather than just matching on
>>> its children.
>>> 
>>> Later sanity checks on node properties (which would likely be missing)
>>> should prevent this from causing much trouble however, especially as the
>>> original premature free of the parent node has already been fixed
>>> separately (but that "fix" was apparently never backported to stable).
>>> 
>>> Fixes: e7ec014a47e4 ("Input: twl6040-vibra - update for device tree support")
>>> Fixes: c52c545ead97 ("Input: twl6040-vibra - fix DT node memory management")
>>> Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>     # 3.6
>> 
>> Note that of_get_child_by_name() is not present in 3.6, this was the
>> reason the original implementation was using of_find_node_by_name()
> 
> Ah, ok. So the lookup would have needed to be open-coded using
> for_each_child_of_node() back then, or if anyone wants to backport any
> of these fixes to before v3.7.

Just let me note that intensive DT support of OMAP4&5/ARM based boards didn't
start before ca. v3.13. So it is very unlikely that anyone is running a twl6040
based board with older kernels. It is different for twl4030/omap3 which was
used by several devices (N900, Pandora, GTA04) back in 2.6. So I don't
see a reason to backport this change to any kernel older than 3.16.

BR,
Nikolaus Schaller