[PATCH v2] of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells handling

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Nov 7 22:35:58 AEDT 2024


"Rob Herring (Arm)" <robh at kernel.org> writes:
> While OpenFirmware originally allowed walking parent nodes and default
> root values for #address-cells and #size-cells, FDT has long required
> explicit values. It's been a warning in dtc for the root node since the
> beginning (2005) and for any parent node since 2007. Of course, not all
> FDT uses dtc, but that should be the majority by far. The various
> extracted OF devicetrees I have dating back to the 1990s (various
> PowerMac, OLPC, PASemi Nemo) all have explicit root node properties.

I have various old device trees that have been given to me over the
years, and as far as I can tell they all have these properties (some of
them are partial trees so it's hard to be 100% sure).

So LGTM.

cheers


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