[PATCH 3/3] Return a non-zero exit code if an error occurs during dts parsing.

[David Gibson]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:55:09PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:30:33PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > This is unequivocally wrong.  boot_info should have information about
> > the contents of the blob, not state information like the error.
> 
> "This blob is invalid" *is* information about the contents of the blob.
> 
> > If you're going to use an ugly global, then use it everywhere.
> 
> Why go out of our way to make the code even less library-able/thread-safe?

It doesn't make it any less thread-safe.  A global variable used some
places is just as bad as a global variable used everywhere from that
point of view, and is more complicated.

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