[PATCH 02/10] utilfdt_read: pass back up the length of data read

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 02:29:07PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> For a follow up commit, we want to be able to scan the buffer that was
> returned to us.  In order to do that safely, we need to know how big
> the buffer actually is, so pass that back if requested.

Rather than changing all the callers, I'd prefer to see a new function
implemented.  The existing utilfdt_read(), which assumes the caller
can get the size from the fdt header, can be reimplemented in terms of
the version returning the length.

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