linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 01/13] of: earlycon: Fix 'stdout-path' with ':' path terminator

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Message-ID: <553F862A.2000709@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:07:54 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	"linux-serial@...r.kernel.org" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/13] of: earlycon: Fix 'stdout-path' with ':' path
 terminator

On 04/08/2015 05:24 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com> wrote:
>> stdout-path defines ':' as a path terminator and commit 75c28c09af99a
>> ("of: add optional options parameter to of_find_node_by_path()") added
>> the necessary support to parse paths terminated with ':'.
>> commit 7914a7c5651a5 ("of: support passing console options with
>> stdout-path") added options string support to the stdout-path property,
>> which broke earlycon.
>>
>> Add the same support to earlycon to process 'stdout-path' properties
>> which contain an options string.
>>
>> Requires: "libfdt: Add fdt_path_offset_namelen()"
> 
> Since David has applied this, we can cherrypick that commit for the
> kernel copy. Ideally, we would do a dtc sync, but it's not going to
> happen for 4.1.

Rob,

Greg pulled this series for -next and kbuild robot promptly blew up
because of this missing commit. Are you planning on cherry-picking
"libfdt: Add fdt_path_offset_namelen()"?

Regards,
Peter Hurley
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