linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] of: Core devicetree changeset support

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:43:31 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
To:	Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...tin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tyrel Datwyler <turtle.in.the.kernel@...il.com>,
	Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] of: Core devicetree changeset support

On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:10:15 -0500, Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...tin.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 07/23/2014 06:44 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This is a rollup of all the patches that I queued up today for
> > linux-next for the devicetree changeset and overlay work. I'm reposting
> > these patches because some have been significantly changed since their
> > first posting. None of the code is actually live yet, but the test cases
> > are there.
> > 
> > There is one significant functional change which may affect pseries. The
> > OF_DYNAMIC code has been changed to emit notifiers after applying a
> > change to the tree instead of before. I think I've got all they users
> > taken care of correctly, but I'd like to see some testing. I don't have
> > access to pseries (and I can't get the QEMU pseries model to boot reliably)
> > 
> > Nathan/Tyrel, can you give it a spin? The changes can be found in my git tree:
> 
> Grant,
> 
> I was able to do some sniff testing by adding/removing memory, cpus, and pci
> devices and it appears that all device tree nodes and properties were updated
> properly.
> 
> I would still like to try doing live partition migration where we can update
> many pieces of the device tree. I'll be out next week, will try to get
> on that when I return.

Thanks Nathan,

In the mean time, all this stuff is in Linux next. I would really like
to merge it for v3.17. I expect the merge window will open next weekend.
Let me know once you've been able to do the migration test. I can hold
off sending Linus a pull request until wk2 of the merge window if you
need the extra time.

g.

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