Call for testing: device nodes as kobjects

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Nathan Fontenot
<nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> I finally got some time to play around with this on powerpc/pseries.
> Everything looks the same in the device tree, though I am seeing an
> issue with of_property_update(). The routine appears to work and update
> the property but when you read the file from userspace you still get
> the same content that was present before the update.
>
> The root cause appears to be that of_update_property adds the new
> property to the property list on the device node but does not update
> the binary attribute for the file created for that property.
>
> I tried to poke around a bit but couldn't get anything to work that
> would resolve the issue. I'll try to look around some more and send
> something your way if I can get it to work.

Great, thanks for the testing Nathan. I'll take a look also.

g.