[PATCH v7 45/50] drivers/of: Avoid recursively calling unflatten_dt_node()

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 13:33:13 AEDT 2015


On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On 12/06/2015 03:54 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 14:28 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you plan to respin the OF parts at least soon? There's another
>>> problem Guenter found that of_fdt_unflatten_tree is not re-entrant due
>>> to "depth" being static and this series fixes that. So I'd rather
>>> apply this and avoid adding a mutex if possible.
>>
>>
>> Gavin is on vacation until next year.
>>
>
> That is a bit more than the timeline I am looking for.
>
> Rob, any chance to accept my patch for now ? After all, it can be
> reverted after the rework is complete, and it would be easier
> to apply to earlier kernels.

Yes, will do. It's only 4.1 and later that it should be marked for stable?

Rob


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