On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 07:33:11PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> In some cases you need to add a property but the contents of it
> are not known at creation time, merely the extend of it.
>
> This method allows you to create a property of a given size
> which will be set to zero while a pointer to the property data
> will be provided.
Commit message still incorrectly refers to zeroing the property.
I've corrected it and applied. But review comments are not sed
scripts - you're supposed to see what changes logically follow from
those suggested and make those as well.
> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> libfdt/fdt_rw.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
> libfdt/libfdt.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libfdt/fdt_rw.c b/libfdt/fdt_rw.c
> index 8b487f6..5c3a2bb 100644
> --- a/libfdt/fdt_rw.c
> +++ b/libfdt/fdt_rw.c
> @@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ int fdt_set_name(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -int fdt_setprop(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
> - const void *val, int len)
> +int fdt_setprop_placeholder(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
> + int len, void **prop_data)
> {
> struct fdt_property *prop;
> int err;
> @@ -283,8 +283,22 @@ int fdt_setprop(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> + *prop_data = prop->data;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +int fdt_setprop(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
> + const void *val, int len)
> +{
> + void *prop_data;
> + int err;
> +
> + err = fdt_setprop_placeholder(fdt, nodeoffset, name, len, &prop_data);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> if (len)
> - memcpy(prop->data, val, len);
> + memcpy(prop_data, val, len);
> return 0;
> }
>
> diff --git a/libfdt/libfdt.h b/libfdt/libfdt.h
> index a248b1b..313c72a 100644
> --- a/libfdt/libfdt.h
> +++ b/libfdt/libfdt.h
> @@ -1449,6 +1449,37 @@ int fdt_setprop(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
> const void *val, int len);
>
> /**
> + * fdt_setprop _placeholder - allocate space for a property
> + * @fdt: pointer to the device tree blob
> + * @nodeoffset: offset of the node whose property to change
> + * @name: name of the property to change
> + * @len: length of the property value
> + * @prop_data: return pointer to property data
> + *
> + * fdt_setprop_placeholer() allocates the named property in the given node.
> + * If the property exists it is resized. In either case a pointer to the
> + * property data is returned.
> + *
> + * This function may insert or delete data from the blob, and will
> + * therefore change the offsets of some existing nodes.
> + *
> + * returns:
> + * 0, on success
> + * -FDT_ERR_NOSPACE, there is insufficient free space in the blob to
> + * contain the new property value
> + * -FDT_ERR_BADOFFSET, nodeoffset did not point to FDT_BEGIN_NODE tag
> + * -FDT_ERR_BADLAYOUT,
> + * -FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC,
> + * -FDT_ERR_BADVERSION,
> + * -FDT_ERR_BADSTATE,
> + * -FDT_ERR_BADSTRUCTURE,
> + * -FDT_ERR_BADLAYOUT,
> + * -FDT_ERR_TRUNCATED, standard meanings
> + */
> +int fdt_setprop_placeholder(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
> + int len, void **prop_data);
> +
> +/**
> * fdt_setprop_u32 - set a property to a 32-bit integer
> * @fdt: pointer to the device tree blob
> * @nodeoffset: offset of the node whose property to change
--
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