[Skiboot] [PATCH v2 1/2] libfdt: upgrade to upstream dtc.git 243176c

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Tue May 21 13:15:23 AEST 2019


Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
> Upgrade libfdt/ to github.com/dgibson/dtc.git 243176c ("Fix bogus
> error on rebuild")
>
> This copies dtc/libfdt/ to skiboot/libfdt/, with the only change in
> that directory being the addition of README.skiboot and Makefile.inc.
>
> This adds about 14kB text, 2.5kB compressed xz. This could be reduced
> or mostly eliminated by cutting out fdt version checks and unused
> code, but tracking upstream is a bigger benefit at the moment.
>
> This loses commits:
>
>   14ed2b842f61 ("libfdt: add basic sanity check to fdt_open_into")
>   bc7bb3d12bc1 ("sparse: fix declaration of fdt_strerror")
>
> As well as some prehistoric similar kinds of things, which is the
> punishment for us not being good downstream citizens and sending
> things upstream! Syncing to upstream will make that effort simpler
> in future.

I like the syncing to upstream. Series merged to master as of
df6b7a2dadd72a519c6bdae95a89ead48b3e095b


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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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