linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] of/fdt: only store the device node basename in full

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Message-ID: <87r2x35w9v.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:26:36 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] of/fdt: only store the device node basename in full_name

Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> writes:

> With dependencies on a statically allocated full path name converted to
> use %pOF format specifier, we can store just the basename of node, and
> the unflattening of the FDT can be simplified.
>
> This commit will affect the remaining users of full_name. After
> analyzing these users, the remaining cases should only change some print
> messages. The main users of full_name are providing a name for struct
> resource. The resource names shouldn't be important other than providing
> /proc/iomem names.
>
> We no longer distinguish between pre and post 0x10 dtb formats as either
> a full path or basename will work. However, less than 0x10 formats have
> been broken since the conversion to use libfdt (and no one has cared).

For the record - yes we did care. It broke booting with old versions of
kexec, and it was a royal P.I.T.# to debug :D

cheers