[U-Boot] [PATCH] image-fdt: boot_get_fdt() return value when no DTB exists

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Oct 22 19:33:28 CEST 2014


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:15:07PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 12:48 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:17:49PM +0300, Noam Camus wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Noam Camus <noamc at ezchip.com>
> > > 
> > > I believe that when no DTB is around we should return 1.
> > > This why I fixed such scenarious to not return zero anymore.
> > > Else kernel might get NULL pointer to DTB which doesn't exists.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc at ezchip.com>
> > 
> > While this is probably OK and not an issue, my only "what if" is, what
> > about for appened device trees?
> 
> Which device tree do you mean?
> The one built in uImage or in FIT image?

I'm talking about the allowed-by-kludgey case of a device tree being
cat'd to the end of an image prior to loading.

-- 
Tom
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