Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] of/fdt: only store the device node basename in full_name | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:26:36 +1000 |
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Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> writes:
> With dependencies on a statically allocated full path name converted to > use %pOF format specifier, we can store just the basename of node, and > the unflattening of the FDT can be simplified. > > This commit will affect the remaining users of full_name. After > analyzing these users, the remaining cases should only change some print > messages. The main users of full_name are providing a name for struct > resource. The resource names shouldn't be important other than providing > /proc/iomem names. > > We no longer distinguish between pre and post 0x10 dtb formats as either > a full path or basename will work. However, less than 0x10 formats have > been broken since the conversion to use libfdt (and no one has cared).
For the record - yes we did care. It broke booting with old versions of kexec, and it was a royal P.I.T.# to debug :D
cheers
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