[PATCH 1/1] Fix segfault in DTC

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Sat Sep 29 19:53:42 EDT 2012


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:05:33PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/28/2012 12:53 PM, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, seems like the kernel DTC is quite old.
> >>
> >> FYI, I'm working on a patch to the kernel to bring in the latest dtc.
> > 
> > Awesome.  Thank you.
> > 
> >> I've run a regression test vs. the old dtc in the kernel ...
> > 
> > Which is the icky step.  Again, thank you.
> > 
> >> ... and found that
> >> some of the PowerPC .dts files don't compile with the new dtc (but did
> >> with the old), all due to non-existent labels/paths being referenced.
> >> I'll try and track down whether this is a regression in dtc, or simply
> >> buggy .dts files that weren't noticed before.
> > 
> > I think you should just smack the PowerPC guys. :-)
> 
> For the record in this thread, it was a regression I introduced into dtc
> - the patch I just sent was for this.

I would be nice to add a testcase for this regression into dtc.

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