[PATCH] arm: Fix conversion to early_init_dt_scan() for non-DT platforms
Rob Herring
robherring2 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 12:37:52 EDT 2013
On 10/03/2013 07:50 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
>
> Commit 67a964490bfd14 (arm: use early_init_dt_scan) in the OF tree in
> -next converts ARM to use early_init_dt_scan(), factoring out some common
> code. However it ignores the return value of the function meaning that on
> non-DT platforms the kernel fails to boot as it attempts to configure
> itself using DT.
>
> Fix this by adding the appropriate return value check.
I have this fixed already in my tree. I had not pushed out my -next
branch with the fix, but have done so now.
Rob
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c b/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c
> index 04050f7..67f4ebe 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c
> @@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ const struct machine_desc * __init setup_machine_fdt(unsigned int dt_phys)
> if (!dt_phys)
> return NULL;
>
> - early_init_dt_scan(phys_to_virt(dt_phys));
> + if (!early_init_dt_scan(phys_to_virt(dt_phys)))
> + return NULL;
>
> /* Search the mdescs for the 'best' compatible value match */
> dt_root = of_get_flat_dt_root();
>
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