[PATCH 05/20] bootwrapper: flatdevtree fixes

[Scott Wood]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:01:22AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:48:30PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > It's likely to be ugly no matter what, though I'll try to come up with 
> > something slightly nicer.  If I were doing this code from scratch, I'd 
> > probably liven the tree first and reflatten it to pass to the kernel.
> 
> Eh, probably not worth bothering doing an actual implementation at
> this stage - I'll have to redo it for libfdt anyway.

Too late, I already wrote it -- it wasn't as bad as I thought it would
be.

> flatdevtree uses some of the information it caches in the phandle
> context stuff to remember who's the parent of a node.  libfdt uses raw
> offsets into the structure, so the *only* way to implement
> get_parent() is to rescan the dt from the beginning, keeping track of
> parents until reaching the given node.

What is the benefit of doing it that way?

-Scott