bisected regression since 3.5-rc5 - hang on boot on some sparc64 machines

[Rob Herring]

On 07/10/2012 06:09 AM, Meelis Roos wrote:
> A regression since 3.5-rc5 stops Sun Fire V100 and Sun Netra X1 sparc64 
> machines from booting, hanging after enabling serial console. Several 
> different other sparc64 systems work fine with 3.5-rc6. prtconf and full 
> dmesg below.
> 
> Bisecting leads to
> 107a84e61cdd3406c842a0e4be7efffd3a05dba6 is the first bad commit
> commit 107a84e61cdd3406c842a0e4be7efffd3a05dba6
> Author: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de>
> Date:   Thu Jun 14 09:12:35 2012 +0200
> 
>     of: match by compatible property first
>     
>     When matching devices against an OF device ID table, the first string of
>     the compatible property that is listed in the table should match,
>     regardless of its position in the table.
>     
>     Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
>     Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>     Cc: devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org
>     Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>

The problem is match combinations of compatible plus name and/or type
fail to match correctly. I have a fix for this, but given how late it is
for 3.5 I think it is best to revert this for now. There could be other
cases that rely on the current although wrong behavior. I will post an
updated version for 3.6.

Linus, Please revert 107a84e61cdd3406c842a0e4be7efffd3a05dba6.

Rob