[PATCH] ARM: dts: imx: Pass an empty 'chosen' node

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Mon Dec 19 13:53:02 PST 2016


On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 07:30:25PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > wouldn't it be better to fix the decompressor code to eventually create
> > the /chosen node when it doesn't exist?
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> I don't have a Barebox setup handy, but would the following change fix
> it as you propose?
> 
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c
> @@ -66,13 +66,21 @@ static uint32_t get_cell_size(const void *fdt)
>         return cell_size;
>  }
> 
> -static void merge_fdt_bootargs(void *fdt, const char *fdt_cmdline)
> +static int merge_fdt_bootargs(void *fdt, const char *fdt_cmdline)
>  {
>         char cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
>         const char *fdt_bootargs;
>         char *ptr = cmdline;
> +       int chosen_off;
>         int len = 0;
> 
> +       /* find or add chosen node */
> +       chosen_off = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/chosen");
> +       if (chosen_off == -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND)
> +               chosen_off = fdt_add_subnode(fdt, 0, "chosen");
> +       if (chosen_off < 0)
> +               return chosen_off;

I would have done:

	ret = fdt_add_subnode(fdt, 0, "chosen")
	if (ret < 0 && ret != -FDT_ERR_EXISTS)
		return -ESOMETHING;

but I don't have the right machine at hand. Will check tomorrow.

Best regards
Uwe

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