linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PPC: Skip over OF_DT_NOP when unflattening the device tree

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Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:18:17 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC: Skip over OF_DT_NOP when unflattening the device 
	tree

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:50:38PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:30 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> > NOPs within the property section are skipped, but NOPs between
>> > OF_DT_END_NODE and OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE were not. My firmware NOPs out
>> > entire nodes depending on various environment parameters.
>> >
>> > of_scan_flat_dt already handles NOP more generally..
>>
>> Good catch, though that code has now moved over to drivers/of
>> and is a bit different. Grant is going to fix it up though.
>
> Ah, I based the patch off 2.6.33..
>
> Grant: let me know if you need some help/testing, nice to run into you
> again.

Would be nice if you could respin and test your patch against 2.6.34-rc1.  :-)

Otherwise I'll look at it tomorrow.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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