generating a phandle w/libfdt?

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:11 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> In some work I'm doing I noticed we don't have any APIs to generate  
> a phandle via libfdt.
>
> was wondering if anyone had ideas on this.
>
> In first thought it seems we have to scan through the whole blob  
> looking for the largest phandle id and than +1 it to generate the  
> next "valid" id.  Any other ideas on how to do this more efficiently?

The other question is there a way today to create a phandle even if  
there isn't a reference to it elsewhere in a .dts?

- k