libfdt: Correctly handle versions > 17
Jon Loeliger
jdl at jdl.com
Tue Oct 30 23:50:54 EST 2007
So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:
> If future dtb version > 17 are defined, that are still backwards
> compatible with v16, libfdt will of course be able to read and
> understand them. However, when modifying such a tree, it can't
> guarantee that it won't clobber additional structure from the new
> version which it doesn't know about. Therefore, before making
> modifications to a tree of version >17, we must change it's version to
> be exactly 17.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Applied.
jdl
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