On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 22:47 -0700, frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx> > > Remove "phandle" and "linux,phandle" properties from the internal > device tree. The phandle will still be in the struct device_node > phandle field. > > This is to resolve the issue found by Stephen Boyd [1] when he changed > the type of struct property.value from void * to const void *. As > a result of the type change, the overlay code had compile errors > where the resolver updates phandle values. Piggy back on the powerpc breakage thread... So various things in userspace will consume these. The main one is kexec which needs them to rebuild a fdt. So if you're going to do that you need to modify the sysfs code to expose a phandle attribute from the device node ->phandle. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
