[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] fdt: Add function to alloc phandle values

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Jul 11 17:04:46 CEST 2010


On Jul 10, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> If we are creating reference (handles) to nodes in a device tree we need
>> to first create a new phandle in node and this needs a new phandle
>> value.  So we search through the whole dtb to find the max phandle value
>> and return the next greater value for a new phandle allocation.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> I still think you should merge my fdt_get_max_phandle() function into
> this patch.  The two functions are related and can share code.

I'm replacing fdt_get_max_phandle w/fdt_alloc_phandle in our tree's.  As what we are doing is allocating a phandle value.

- k


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