On 09/09/18 10:04, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 14:58 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >>> A long shot, but something to consider, is that I failed to cover the >>> cases of dynamic devicetree updates (removing nodes that contain a >>> phandle) in ways other than overlays. Michael Ellerman has reported >>> such a problem for powerpc/mobility with of_detach_node(). A patch to >>> fix that is one of the tasks I need to complete. >> >> The only thing I can think of is booting via the BootX bootloader on >> those ancient macs results in a DT with no phandles. I didn't see an >> obvious reason why that would cause that patch to break though. > > Guys, we still don't have a fix for this one on its way upstream... > > My test patch just creates phandle properties for all nodes, that was > not intended as a fix, more a way to check if the problem was related > to the lack of phandles. > > I don't actually know why the new code causes things to fail when > phandles are absent. This needs to be looked at. > > I'm travelling at the moment and generally caught up with other things, > I haven't had a chance to dig, so just a heads up. I don't intend to > submit my patch since it's just a band aid. We need to figure out what > the actual problem is. > > Cheers, > Ben. Thanks for chasing after this, and the current heads up. I agree that we need to understand what is going on and do a real fix. -Frank
