Re: Dynamic overlay failure in 4.19 & 4.20

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On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 09:14:22PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 07:50:59PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 01:02:18PM +0100, Phil Elwell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I think patch f96278810150 ("of: overlay: set node fields from
> > > properties when add new overlay node") should be back-ported to 4.19,
> > > for the reasons outlined below (briefly: without it, overlay fragments
> > > that define phandles will appear to merged successfully, but they do
> > > so without those phandles, causing any references to them to break).
> > 
> > That patch does not properly apply to the 4.19.y tree.  Can you provide
> > a working backport that I can queue up to resolve this?
> 
> Greg,
> 
> That patch has contextual dependencies on 6f75118800 ("of: overlay:
> validate overlay properties #address-cells and #size-cells"), I think it
> would make sense to take 6f75118800 and then f96278810150 rather than a
> backport.

That works better, I have now done this, thanks.

greg k-h



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