Make the kernel accept ePAPR style phandle information
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Nov 26 16:16:42 EST 2009
Grant, this is based on your test-devicetree branch, if it could be
merged via there would be great.
Currently when processing flattened device trees, the kernel expects
the phandle in a property called "linux,phandle". The ePAPR spec -
not being Linux specific - instead requires phandles to be encoded in
a property named simply "phandle". This patch makes the kernel accept
either form when unflattening the device tree.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Index: working-2.6/drivers/of/fdt.c
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.orig/drivers/of/fdt.c 2009-11-26 09:58:06.052792325 +1100
+++ working-2.6/drivers/of/fdt.c 2009-11-26 10:00:08.309570256 +1100
@@ -314,10 +314,19 @@ unsigned long __init unflatten_dt_node(u
pp = unflatten_dt_alloc(&mem, sizeof(struct property),
__alignof__(struct property));
if (allnextpp) {
- if (strcmp(pname, "linux,phandle") == 0) {
+ /* We accept flattened tree phandles either in
+ * ePAPR-style "phandle" properties, or the
+ * legacy "linux,phandle" properties. If both
+ * appear and have different values, things
+ * will get weird. Don't do that. */
+ if ((strcmp(pname, "phandle") == 0)
+ || (strcmp(pname, "linux,phandle") == 0)) {
if (np->phandle == 0)
np->phandle = *((u32 *)*p);
}
+ /* And we process the "ibm,phandle" property
+ * used in pSeries dynamic device tree
+ * stuff */
if (strcmp(pname, "ibm,phandle") == 0)
np->phandle = *((u32 *)*p);
pp->name = pname;
--
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