Re: [PATCH v15 06/16] of/fdt: add helper functions for handling properties

From: David Gibson
Date: Tue Oct 09 2018 - 20:58:54 EST


On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 11:02:29AM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 10/04/18 22:06, AKASHI, Takahiro wrote:
[snip]
> >>>> +int fdt_setprop_reg(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
> >>>> + u64 addr, u64 size)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> + int addr_cells, size_cells;
> >>
> >> unsigned
> >
> > fdt_[address|size]_cell() returns an int.
>
> I stand corrected. They take advantage of the fact that valid values
> are in the range 0..4 and return a negative value for error.

I'm not sure if the spec formally defines that these values will fit
in a positive 'int'. But if addresses are 8GiB each, you're going to
have much bigger problems putting it in a device tree than this
function.

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