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Scott Wood
804ace8881 [POWERPC] Use strcasecmp() rather than strncasecmp() when determining device node compatibility
The current code assumes "foo-bar" must always be compatible with a node
compatible with "foo", which breaks device trees where this is not so.

The "case" part is also wrong according to Open Firmware, but it's more
likely to have drivers and/or device trees depending on it, and thus
needs to be handled more carefully.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-22 15:21:47 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
0b8188a44d [POWERPC] Remove get_property and device_is_compatible
They were only needed for backwards compatibility and all in tree uses
have now been changed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-17 11:01:58 +10:00
Segher Boessenkool
34f329db54 [POWERPC] of_detach_node()'s device node argument cannot be const
...since it modifies it (when it sets the OF_DETACHED flag).

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-22 21:30:59 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
1ef4d4242d Consolidate of_find_node_by routines
This consolidates the routines of_find_node_by_path, of_find_node_by_name,
of_find_node_by_type and of_find_compatible_device.  Again, the comparison
of strings are done differently by Sparc and PowerPC and also these add
read_locks around the iterations.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:39:06 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
581b605a83 Consolidate of_find_property
The only change here is that a readlock is taken while the property list
is being traversed on Sparc where it was not taken previously.

Also, Sparc uses strcasecmp to compare property names while PowerPC
uses strcmp.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:32:24 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
0081cbc373 Consolidate of_device_is_compatible
The only difference here is that Sparc uses strncmp to match compatibility
names while PowerPC uses strncasecmp.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:29:51 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
97e873e5c8 Start split out of common open firmware code
This creates drivers/of/base.c (depending on CONFIG_OF) and puts
the first trivially common bits from the prom.c files into it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:28:41 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
76c1ce7870 Split out common parts of prom.h
This creates linux/of.h and includes asm/prom.h from it.

We also include linux/of.h from asm/prom.h while we transition.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:10:22 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
6a281856c0 [POWERPC] Add a warning to help trackdown device_node refcounting bugs
When the refcount for a device node goes to 0, we call the
destructor - of_node_release(). This should only happen if we've
already detached the node from the device tree.

So add a flag OF_DETACHED which tracks detached-ness, and if we
find ourselves in of_node_release() without it set, issue a
warning and don't free the device_node. To avoid warning
continuously reinitialise the kref to a sane value.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-10 21:53:47 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
d3b814bb1e [POWERPC] Generalise device_node flag interface
The struct device_node currently has a _flags variable, although
it's only used for one flag - OF_DYNAMIC.  Generalise the flag
accessors so we can use them with other flags in future.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-10 21:53:46 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
e3855fa554 [POWERPC] Add for_each_compatible_node()
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-25 17:02:08 +10:00
Christian Krafft
c3e8011ad1 [POWERPC] Uninline of_iomap function
There is no big reason to have that function inlined.

Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-05-02 20:04:29 +10:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
c0b3ae14f1 [POWERPC] Move of_irq_to_resource from prom.h to prom_parse.c
In the powerpc architecture, of_irq_to_resource, currently sitting in
prom.h, needs irq_of_parse_and_map and NO_IRQ from asm-powerpc/irq.h.
The solution suggested by Benjamin Herrenschmidt is to move it to
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-05-02 16:40:55 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
30686ba6d5 [POWERPC] Remove old interface find_devices
Replace uses with of_find_node_by_name and for_each_node_by_name.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-24 22:09:02 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
1658ab6678 [POWERPC] Remove old interface find_type_devices
Replaced by of_find_node_by_type.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-24 22:09:01 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
8c8dc32248 [POWERPC] Remove old interface find_path_device
Replaced by of_find_node_by_path.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-24 22:08:59 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
112466b4d0 [POWERPC] Remove find_all_nodes
This old interface has no more users.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-24 22:08:58 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
4bf56e1725 [POWERPC] Remove find_compatible_devices
This is an old interface and is replaced by of_find_compatible_node.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-24 22:08:57 +10:00
Christian Krafft
6bf05fd776 [POWERPC] add of_iomap function
The of_iomap function maps memory for a given
device_node and returns a pointer to that memory.
This is used at some places, so it makes sense to
a seperate function.

Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-23 21:44:40 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell
1a38147ed0 [POWERPC] Make struct property's value a void *
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13 03:55:18 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
9213feea6e [POWERPC] Rename prom_n_size_cells to of_n_size_cells
This is more consistent and gets us closer to the Sparc code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13 03:55:18 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
a8bda5dd4f [POWERPC] Rename prom_n_addr_cells to of_n_addr_cells
This is more consistent and gets us closer to the Sparc code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13 03:55:18 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
7a92f74f98 [POWERPC] Rename device_is_compatible to of_device_is_compatible
This is more consistent and gets us closer to the Sparc code.

We add a device_is_compatible define for compatibility during the
change over.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13 03:55:18 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
0e56efc7dc [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property
This is more consistent and gets us closer to the Sparc code.

We add a get_property define for compatibility during the change over.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13 03:55:17 +10:00
David Gibson
0e0293c898 [POWERPC] Update documentation for flat device tree format v17
This patch updates booting-without-of.txt to describe version 17 of
the flattened device tree format.  Version 17 is a small, backwards
compatible change from version 16, adding an extra field giving the
size of the device tree's structure block.  At this time, the kernel
has no use for the extra information, however its presence can make
life easier for bootloaders or other software manipulating the tree.

In addition this patch adds information on the size_dt_strings field
of the device tree header, present since version 3 of the flattened
tree format, but omitted from the documentation.  It also makes
changes to consistently refer to versions 16 and 17 as versions 16 and
17 in decimal, rather than version 0x10 which was occasionally used
for version 16 previously.

Finally, we also add the new field to the definition of the device
tree header structure in prom.h

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-03-16 16:38:19 +11:00
Andrew Morton
99ddef9bfe [POWERPC] Fix compile error in prom.h
In file included from include/asm/pci.h:20,
                 from include/linux/pci.h:751,
                 from arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c:36:
include/asm/prom.h: In function `of_irq_to_resource':
include/asm/prom.h:341: warning: implicit declaration of function `irq_of_parse_and_map'
include/asm/prom.h:345: error: `NO_IRQ' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/asm/prom.h:345: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
include/asm/prom.h:345: error: for each function it appears in.)

Seems that prom.h has always wanted irq.h.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-03-08 15:31:40 +11:00
Timur Tabi
29cfe6f4fb [POWERPC] add of_get_mac_address and update fsl_soc.c to use it
Add function of_get_mac_address(), which obtains the best MAC address to use
from the device tree by checking various properties in order.  The order is:
'mac-address', then 'local-mac-address', then 'address'.  It skips properties
that contain invalid MAC addresses, which were probably not initialized
by U-Boot.

Update gfar_of_init() and fs_enet_of_init() in fsl_soc.c to call
of_get_mac_address().

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-17 10:21:25 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
79acbb3ff2 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-linus 2006-12-04 15:59:07 +11:00
Andy Fleming
66a91e9c0a [PATCH] of_irq_to_resource now returns the virq
Mostly this is to allow for error checking (check the return for NO_IRQ)
Added a check that the resource is non-NULL, too.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-11-13 14:48:54 +11:00
Andy Fleming
a9b14973a8 [PATCH] Slight refactor of interrupt mapping for FSL parts
* Cleaned up interrupt mapping a little by adding a helper
  function which parses the irq out of the device-tree, and puts
  it into a resource.
* Changed the arch/ppc platform files to specify PHY_POLL, instead of -1
* Changed the fixed phy to use PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT
* Added ethtool.h and mii.h to phy.h includes

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-11-13 14:48:52 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
e2100efb26 [POWERPC] Fix device_is_compatible() const warning
Fix a const'ification related warning with device_is_compatible()
and friends related to get_property() not properly having const
on it's input device node argument.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-10-25 11:54:24 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
a4dc7ff089 [POWERPC] Define of_read_ulong helper
There are various places where we want to extract an unsigned long
value from a device-tree property that can be 1 or 2 cells in length.
This replaces some open-coded calculations, and one place where we
assumed without checking that properties were the length we wanted,
with a little of_read_ulong() helper.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-20 15:09:48 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
aa43f77939 Merge branch 'merge' 2006-08-31 15:45:48 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
006b64de60 [POWERPC] Make OF irq map code detect more error cases
Device-tree bugs on js20 with some versions of SLOF were causing the
interrupt for IDE to not be parsed correctly and fail to boot. This
patch adds a bit more sanity checking to the parser to detect some of
those errors and fail instead of returning bogus information.  The
powerpc PCI code can then trigger a fallback that works on those
machines.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-30 14:31:03 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
40681b95a4 [POWERPC] Make doc comments extractable
We don't have much in the way of doc comments, but some of those we do have
don't work because they start with "/***" or "/*", not "/**" which is what
kernel-doc requires.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-08 17:07:04 +10:00
Jeremy Kerr
931b261f44 [POWERPC] Make get_property() return a const void *
Previous changes have treated the return values of get_property as
const, so now we can make the actual change to get_property(). There
shouldn't be a need to cast the return values anymore.

We will now get compiler warnings when property values are assigned to
a non-const variable.

If properties need to be updated, there's still the of_find_property
function.

Built for cell_defconfig, chrp32_defconfig, g5_defconfig,
iseries_defconfig, maple_defconfig, pmac32_defconfig, ppc64_defconfig
and pseries_defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-31 15:55:06 +10:00
Jeremy Kerr
a7f67bdf2c [POWERPC] Constify & voidify get_property()
Now that get_property() returns a void *, there's no need to cast its
return value. Also, treat the return value as const, so we can
constify get_property later.

powerpc core changes.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-31 15:55:04 +10:00
Jeremy Kerr
b5a1a9abe1 [POWERPC] Use const qualifiers for prom parsing utilites
The of_bus callbacks map and get_flags can be constified, as they don't
alter the range or addr arguments. of_dump_addr and of_read_addr can
also be constified.

Built for 32- and 64-bit powerpc

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-07 20:19:16 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
0ebfff1491 [POWERPC] Add new interrupt mapping core and change platforms to use it
This adds the new irq remapper core and removes the old one.  Because
there are some fundamental conflicts with the old code, like the value
of NO_IRQ which I'm now setting to 0 (as per discussions with Linus),
etc..., this commit also changes the relevant platform and driver code
over to use the new remapper (so as not to cause difficulties later
in bisecting).

This patch removes the old pre-parsing of the open firmware interrupt
tree along with all the bogus assumptions it made to try to renumber
interrupts according to the platform. This is all to be handled by the
new code now.

For the pSeries XICS interrupt controller, a single remapper host is
created for the whole machine regardless of how many interrupt
presentation and source controllers are found, and it's set to match
any device node that isn't a 8259.  That works fine on pSeries and
avoids having to deal with some of the complexities of split source
controllers vs. presentation controllers in the pSeries device trees.

The powerpc i8259 PIC driver now always requests the legacy interrupt
range. It also has the feature of being able to match any device node
(including NULL) if passed no device node as an input. That will help
porting over platforms with broken device-trees like Pegasos who don't
have a proper interrupt tree.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-03 21:36:01 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
cc9fd71c62 [POWERPC] New device-tree interrupt parsing code
Adds new routines to prom_parse to walk the device-tree for interrupt
information. This includes both direct mapping of interrupts and low
level parsing functions for use with partial trees.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-03 19:55:24 +10:00
Jeremy Kerr
a1af5b2fd4 [POWERPC] change get_property to return void *
Change the get_property() function to return a void *. This allows us
to later remove the cast done in the majority of callers.

Built for pseries, iseries, pmac32, cell, cbesim, g5, systemsim, maple,
and mpc* defconfigs

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-03 08:56:33 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
45c091bb2d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (139 commits)
  [POWERPC] re-enable OProfile for iSeries, using timer interrupt
  [POWERPC] support ibm,extended-*-frequency properties
  [POWERPC] Extra sanity check in EEH code
  [POWERPC] Dont look for class-code in pci children
  [POWERPC] Fix mdelay badness on shared processor partitions
  [POWERPC] disable floating point exceptions for init
  [POWERPC] Unify ppc syscall tables
  [POWERPC] mpic: add support for serial mode interrupts
  [POWERPC] pseries: Print PCI slot location code on failure
  [POWERPC] spufs: one more fix for 64k pages
  [POWERPC] spufs: fail spu_create with invalid flags
  [POWERPC] spufs: clear class2 interrupt status before wakeup
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix Makefile for "make clean"
  [POWERPC] spufs: remove stop_code from struct spu
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix spu irq affinity setting
  [POWERPC] spufs: further abstract priv1 register access
  [POWERPC] spufs: split the Cell BE support into generic and platform dependant parts
  [POWERPC] spufs: dont try to access SPE channel 1 count
  [POWERPC] spufs: use kzalloc in create_spu
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix initial state of wbox file
  ...

Manually resolved conflicts in:
	drivers/net/phy/Makefile
	include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
2006-06-22 22:11:30 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
acf7d76827 [POWERPC] cell: add RAS support
This is a first version of support for the Cell BE "Reliability,
Availability and Serviceability" features.

It doesn't yet handle some of the RAS interrupts (the ones described in
iic_is/iic_irr), I'm still working on a proper way to expose these. They
are essentially a cascaded controller by themselves (sic !) though I may
just handle them locally to the iic driver. I need also to sync with
David Erb on the way he hooked in the performance monitor interrupt.

So that's all for 2.6.17 and I'll do more work on that with my rework of
the powerpc interrupt layer that I'm hacking on at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-21 15:01:29 +10:00
Jeremy Kerr
d4ad66faec [PATCH] powerpc: Add of_parse_dma_window()
Add a function for generic parsing of dma-window properties (ie,
ibm,dma-window and ibm,my-dma-window) of pci and virtual device nodes.

This function will also be used by cell.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-19 15:02:21 +10:00
David Woodhouse
62c4f0a2d5 Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-04-26 12:56:16 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
e8222502ee [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism.  With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.

We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants.  This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 23:15:54 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
e33852228f [PATCH] powerpc: add for_each_node_by_foo helpers
Typical use for of_find_node_by_name and of_find_node_by_type is to
iterate over all nodes of a given type/name.  Add a helper macro to
do that (in spirit of the list_for_each* macros).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-17 13:21:09 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
b68239ee74 [PATCH] powerpc: Don't overwrite flat device tree with kdump kernel
It's possible for prom_init to allocate the flat device tree inside the
kdump crash kernel region. If this happens, when we load the kdump kernel we
overwrite the flattened device tree, which is bad.

We could make prom_init try and avoid allocating inside the crash kernel
region, but then we run into issues if the crash kernel region uses all the
space inside the RMO. The easiest solution is to move the flat device tree
once we're running in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07 21:32:44 +11:00
Dave C Boutcher
ecaa8b0ff3 [PATCH] powerpc: Add of_find_property function
Add an of_find_property function that returns a struct property
given a property name.  Then change the get_property function to
use that routine internally.

Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:11:57 +11:00
Dave C Boutcher
088186ded4 [PATCH] powerpc: Add/remove/update properties in firmware device tree
Add support for updating and removing device tree
properties.  Since we hand out pointers to properties with gay
abandon, we can't just free the property storage.  Instead we
move deleted, or the old copy of an updated property, to a
"dead properties" list.

Also note, its not feasable to kref device tree properties.
we call get_property() all over the kernel in a wild variety
of contexts.

One consequence of this change is that we now take a
read_lock(&devtree_lock) when doing get_property().

Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:02:50 +11:00