On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 5:26 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 Sorry, I forgot about that one. I'll drop the statement. I had gone back and looked and only found the issue on mpc8323 booting[1] which was an issue with libfdt having more checks on the fdt. I proposed some fixes, but never heard back on that. Rob [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/820 -- 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
