Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree(devicetree tree related)

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:13 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In fact this points out that of_alias_scan() was only placed into one
> of the two FT unflattening sites, it needs to go into both as well as
> places that build the device tree from real OpenFirmware calls.  And
> that makes an even stronger argument for adding an allocator function
> pointer arg to this thing.

No argument from me here.  However, I completely broke sparc by
applying it so I needed to post an ASAP fix with the least possible
impact.  A followup patch for v3.2 would have be written to generalize
alias parsing for v3.2

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:17 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> So even though it is implicitly creating properties, it doesn't update
> the in-kernel device tree nor does it update the OpenFirmware
> etc. copy.
>
> This behvaior is undesirable and makes no sense.  This IMX serial
> driver merely wants increasing incrementing indexes for the serial
> nodes it finds, and there are much better ways to do that.

Rolling the assigned ids into the alias list was a convenient & cheap
way of making sure the id assigned would be unique, but fair enough.
Shawn and I will talk about implementing a better solution.

[...]
> This stuff needs more work, I would like to suggest that you just
> revert at this point.

Very well, I'll prepare a revert branch and ask Linus to pull.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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