[PATCH 2/4] state: warn when a state node will be overwritten

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu May 4 04:02:17 PDT 2017


People do not seem to know that a state node in the kernel
device tree will be overwritten by barebox. Print a warning
when this happens so that people can get an idea why changes
in the kernel device tree state node do not have any effect.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
 common/state/state.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/state/state.c b/common/state/state.c
index 6db77f2c18..c3c8b768c7 100644
--- a/common/state/state.c
+++ b/common/state/state.c
@@ -416,6 +416,15 @@ static int of_state_fixup(struct device_node *root, void *ctx)
 	if (node) {
 		/* replace existing node - it will be deleted later */
 		parent = node->parent;
+
+		/*
+		 * barebox replaces the state node in the device tree it starts the
+		 * kernel with, so a state node that already exists in the device tree
+		 * will be overwritten. Warn about this so people do not wonder why
+		 * changes in the kernels state node do not have any effect.
+		 */
+		if (root != of_get_root_node())
+			dev_warn(&state->dev, "Warning: Kernel devicetree contains state node, replacing it\n");
 	} else {
 		char *of_path, *c;
 
-- 
2.11.0




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