generating a phandle w/libfdt?

[Scott Wood]

Yoder Stuart wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Gibson [mailto:david at gibson.dropbear.id.au] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:11 PM
>> To: Kumar Gala
>> Cc: Yoder Stuart-B08248; devicetree-discuss
>> Subject: Re: generating a phandle w/libfdt?
>>
>> You know, I am inclined to make:
>> 	linux,phandle = < &thisnode >;
>> the approved way of doing this.  I *think* that will already work, but
>> if not we can fix it.  The circular reference is slightly odd, but it
>> is self-consistent.  I suppose we could still come up with a further
>> shorthand so it's not necessary to make a label for a node to do this
>> ('&.' or something for 'reference-to-containing-node').
> 
> As I mentioned earlier in this thread, this _does_ work and is
> what we did in the DTS to get phandles generated for nodes that were
> going to be referenced by nodes dynamically created later.

It works if you call the property something *other* than linux,phandle.

If you explicitly say linux,phandle = <&self> then you get this:
ERROR (explicit_phandles): /chosen has invalid linux,phandle value 
0xffffffff

-Scott