Re: [PATCH] of: Add missing of_node_put() in of_find_node_by_path()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Grant,

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:45:56 +0100
>> , Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>>  wrote:
>>> When traversing all nodes and moving to a new path component, the old
>>> one must be released by calling of_node_put(). Else the refcounts of the
>>> parent node(s) will not be decremented.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
> [...]
>>> Feel free to (ab)use the code below and derive a unittest from it...
>
> BTW, can you do this please? They are pretty important for core
> changes now, and I'm stuck with doing them if the person supplying a
> patch does not (and I'm already too much of a bottleneck on the DT
> code).

I'll see whether I can get to it...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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