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SubjectRe: [PATCH] device-tree: Drop properties with "/" in their name
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On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 00:47 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 at 22:32, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Some bogus firmwares include properties with "/" in their name. This
> > causes problems when creating the /proc/device-tree file system,
> > because the slash is taken to indicate a directory.
> >
> > We don't care about those properties, and we don't want to encourage
> > them, so just throw them away when creating /proc/device-tree.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
> > ---
> >
> > Hi Christian, if you could test this new patch that'd be great, thanks!
>
> I've tested the patch, the Badness is gone and the system is stable as
> ever. Will this be pushed to 2.6.35?

Hopefully yes :)

Looks like Ben has deferred it to Grant in patchwork, and he is pretty
busy I think with other OF patches ATM. Maybe he'll grab it or Ben can
pick it up .. guys ? :)

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/52978/

cheers

> > fs/proc/proc_devtree.c | 3 +++
> > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
> > index ce94801..d9396a4 100644
> > --- a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
> > @@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ void proc_device_tree_add_node(struct device_node *np,
> > for (pp = np->properties; pp != NULL; pp = pp->next) {
> > p = pp->name;
> >
> > + if (strchr(p, '/'))
> > + continue;
> > +
> > if (duplicate_name(de, p))
> > p = fixup_name(np, de, p);
> >
> > --
> > 1.7.0.4
> >
> >
> >
>


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