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

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 5:26 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

Sorry, I forgot about that one. I'll drop the statement. I had gone
back and looked and only found the issue on mpc8323 booting[1] which
was an issue with libfdt having more checks on the fdt. I proposed
some fixes, but never heard back on that.

Rob

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/820