Hi David, On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 02:23:08PM +0200, David Jander wrote: > > Hi Sascha, > > I know this is old already, and I was surprised that I couldn't find any > complaints about this yet, but I recently came across this patch in the kernel: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=df5cc9d0b42d15fa33b30440cca7a11ca7ba35a4 > > ...which was adopted in barebox as this: > > https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/patch/dts/src/arm/imx6qdl.dtsi?id=2e9cce8fb1f577088e2b20ae2f461130e13ad190 > > As I don't know the exact reason as to why this was necessary, or why this is > an issue at all, I just wanted to point out the fact that this leads to some > breakage in barebox new and old. This issue is known and has led to https://www.mail-archive.com/barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg25189.html > > The specific problem I observed is here: > https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/tree/net/eth.c#n299 of_get_reproducible_name()/of_find_node_by_reproducible_name() is used for fixing up mtd partitions and state nodes, but not yet for the ethernet devices because nobody noticed. To fix you would have to get a reproducible name of the ethernet device node from the barebox device tree using of_find_node_by_reproducible_name() and then use of_find_node_by_reproducible_name() on the kernel device tree. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
