[PATCH] of/base: Fix PowerPC address parsing hack
Rob Herring
robherring2 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 01:39:32 AEDT 2014
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> We have a historical hack that treats missing ranges properties as the
> equivalent of an empty one. This is needed for ancient PowerMac "bad"
> device-trees, and shouldn't be enabled for any other PowerPC platform,
> otherwise we get some nasty layout of devices in sysfs or even
> duplication when a set of otherwise identically named devices is
> created multiple times under a different parent node with no ranges
> property.
>
> This fix is needed for the PowerNV i2c busses to be exposed properly
> and will fix a number of other embedded cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/address.c b/drivers/of/address.c
> index e371825..e37f017 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/address.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/address.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
> #include <linux/pci_regs.h>
> #include <linux/string.h>
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC
> +#include <asm/machdep.h>
> +#endif
> +
> /* Max address size we deal with */
> #define OF_MAX_ADDR_CELLS 4
> #define OF_CHECK_ADDR_COUNT(na) ((na) > 0 && (na) <= OF_MAX_ADDR_CELLS)
> @@ -428,12 +432,13 @@ static int of_translate_one(struct device_node *parent, struct of_bus *bus,
> * This code is only enabled on powerpc. --gcl
> */
> ranges = of_get_property(parent, rprop, &rlen);
> -#if !defined(CONFIG_PPC)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC)
> + if (!machine_is(powermac))
Can we use a machine compatible here or something not PPC specific?
Then we can use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC) instead of ifdefs.
Rob
> +#endif /* defined(CONFIG_PPC) */
> if (ranges == NULL) {
> - pr_err("OF: no ranges; cannot translate\n");
> + pr_debug("OF: no ranges; cannot translate\n");
> return 1;
> }
> -#endif /* !defined(CONFIG_PPC) */
> if (ranges == NULL || rlen == 0) {
> offset = of_read_number(addr, na);
> memset(addr, 0, pna * 4);
>
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