linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of: Kconfig: OF_OVERLAY, select OF_EARLY

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Date:   Thu, 1 Mar 2018 08:14:04 -0800
From:   Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <panto@...oniou-consulting.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Kconfig: OF_OVERLAY, select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE

On 02/28/18 13:44, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 02/28/18 12:26, Rob Herring wrote:
>> Sorry for the delay, been away for a few days.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/18/18 17:46, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:29 PM,  <frowand.list@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> kbuild test robot reported a new warning for a recent patch:
>>>>>>> drivers/of/overlay.c:832:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'of_fdt_unflatten_tree' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>>>>>      of_fdt_unflatten_tree(new_fdt, NULL, &overlay_root);
>>>>>
>>>>> The cause is that the prototype for of_fdt_unflatten_tree() in
>>>>> include/linux/of_fdt.c is guarded by OF_EARLY_FLATTREE.
>>
>> Umm, this is not true. of_fdt_unflatten_tree is outside the ifdef for
>> OF_EARLY_FLATTREE.
> 
> Brown paper bag.  :-(  As you note below, CONFIG_OF_FLATTREE is the
> relevant option.


< snip >

> function, so it seems all is OK from that angle.  But all use of overlays 
> for many previous releases requires manually selecting OF_FLATTREE, given
> that FDTs have been the overlay source.

I was not correct about needing to manually select OF_FLATTREE.  For
the unittest of overlays, which did the overlay unflattening, OF_UNITTEST
selected (selects until my other patch series) OF_EARLY_FLATTREE, which
selects OF_FLATTREE.

-Frank