Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1] powerpc: Make of_device_uevent() compatible with ibmebus

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 17:28 +0100, Hoang-Nam Nguyen wrote:
> ibmebus has a fake root device that's not associated with an ofdt node.
> Filter out any such devices in of_device_uevent().

Doh ! You are creating an of_device with no attached device-node ? That
is totally evil ! Why do you need that ?

Ben.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@de.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> 
>  of_device.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> 
> diff -urp a/arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c	2007-02-17 16:36:32.116368480 +0100
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c	2007-02-17 16:44:01.319366352 +0100
> @@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ int of_device_uevent(struct device *dev,
>  
>  	ofdev = to_of_device(dev);
>  
> +	/* e.g. ibmebus has a fake root device w/o ofdt node -- filter that */
> +	if (!ofdev->node)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
>  	if (add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
>  			   buffer, buffer_size, &length,
>  			   "OF_NAME=%s", ofdev->node->name))
> 
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