Re: [PATCH] scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version 53bf130b1cdd

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Rob,

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sync to upstream dtc commit 53bf130b1cdd ("libfdt: simplify
> fdt_node_check_compatible()"). This adds the following commits from
> upstream:
>
> 53bf130 libfdt: simplify fdt_node_check_compatible()
> c9d9121 Warn on node name unit-address presence/absence mismatch
> 2e53f9d Catch unsigned 32bit overflow when parsing flattened device tree offsets
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> As usual, this is just an automated copy of upstream dtc into the kernel
> tree. The changeset is small enough that I have left it here.
>
> The main reason for this sync is to pick-up the new unit-address
> warnings.

I gave this a try. Obviously it finds many abuses that should be fixed.

However, I'm wondering about the following, where the unit-address is just
used to distinguish between multiple instances:

    Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): Node /cache-controller@0 has a unit
name, but no reg property
        compatible = "cache";
    Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): Node /regulator@1 has a unit name,
but no reg property
        compatible = "regulator-fixed"
    Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): Node /i2c@2 has a unit name, but no
reg property
        compatible = "i2c-gpio"

How should these be fixed?

BTW, there seems to be a missing dependency of the DTBs on the dtc itself.
Applying your patch and running "make dtbs" didn't rebuilt any DTBs.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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