[PATCH] device-tree: Drop properties with "/" in their name

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Thu May 20 23:51:07 EST 2010


On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:32 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Some bogus firmwares include properties with "/" in their name. This
> causes problems when creating the /proc/device-tree file system,
> because the slash is taken to indicate a directory.
> 
> We don't care about those properties, and we don't want to encourage
> them, so just throw them away when creating /proc/device-tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
> ---
> 
> Hi Christian, if you could test this new patch that'd be great, thanks!

And thanks to Christian for testing it:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15589

Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists at nerdbynature.de>


cheers
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