On 07/10/2012 06:09 AM, Meelis Roos wrote: > A regression since 3.5-rc5 stops Sun Fire V100 and Sun Netra X1 sparc64 > machines from booting, hanging after enabling serial console. Several > different other sparc64 systems work fine with 3.5-rc6. prtconf and full > dmesg below. > > Bisecting leads to > 107a84e61cdd3406c842a0e4be7efffd3a05dba6 is the first bad commit > commit 107a84e61cdd3406c842a0e4be7efffd3a05dba6 > Author: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Jun 14 09:12:35 2012 +0200 > > of: match by compatible property first > > When matching devices against an OF device ID table, the first string of > the compatible property that is listed in the table should match, > regardless of its position in the table. > > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: devicetree-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx> The problem is match combinations of compatible plus name and/or type fail to match correctly. I have a fix for this, but given how late it is for 3.5 I think it is best to revert this for now. There could be other cases that rely on the current although wrong behavior. I will post an updated version for 3.6. Linus, Please revert 107a84e61cdd3406c842a0e4be7efffd3a05dba6. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
