Re: [PATCH 4/4] of/fdt: only store the device node basename in full_name

[Michael Ellerman]

Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> With dependencies on a statically allocated full path name converted to
> use %pOF format specifier, we can store just the basename of node, and
> the unflattening of the FDT can be simplified.
>
> This commit will affect the remaining users of full_name. After
> analyzing these users, the remaining cases should only change some print
> messages. The main users of full_name are providing a name for struct
> resource. The resource names shouldn't be important other than providing
> /proc/iomem names.
>
> We no longer distinguish between pre and post 0x10 dtb formats as either
> a full path or basename will work. However, less than 0x10 formats have
> been broken since the conversion to use libfdt (and no one has cared).

For the record - yes we did care. It broke booting with old versions of
kexec, and it was a royal P.I.T.# to debug :D

cheers