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Message-ID: <CAL_JsqLs7m_ouruWzjq6rnEwWamsDgNMmE+WAo-+W9DMLMUXAQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:12:55 -0500
From:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
To:	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Cc:	Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] OF: fix of_find_node_by_path() assumption that
 of_allnodes is root

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/2014 6:52 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com> wrote:
>>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...ymobile.com>
>>>
>>> Pantelis Antoniou reports that of_find_node_by_path() is borked because
>>> of_allnodes is not guaranteed to contain the root of the tree after using
>>> any of the dynamic update functions because some other nodes ends up as
>>> of_allnodes.
>>>
>>> Fixes: c22e650e66b8 of: Make of_find_node_by_path() handle /aliases
>>
>> Is it not possible to do a fix in of_find_node_by_path instead? I just
>
> Yes, the code for that is in https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/20/758
>
> Or as Grant said in his reply, just use the fix in of_attach_node() for
> now since he is going to replace the custom list.

Okay, I've applied.

Rob
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