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

[Guenter Roeck]

On 12/06/2015 06:33 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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?
>

Yes, I think so. Earlier kernels would need a manual backport.

Thanks,
Guenter