Re: [Qemu-devel] using fdt_setprop() to set properties to empty values

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:11:57AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 27 February 2017 at 01:05, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:35:35AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On 24 February 2017 at 00:16, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > Ok, I've pushed libfdt upstream patches to (a) make passing NULL to
> >> > setprop() with zero length explicitly safe and (b) add an
> >> > fdt_setprop_empty() helper macro.  Do you want me to make a pullreq to
> >> > update the qemu submodule?
> >>
> >> Yes, please. Are we OK with using a random libfdt commit or do
> >> we update only to proper release tags?
> >
> > I'm find with a random SHA, but that's not really my department - I'm
> > upstream libfdt maintainer, but update policy in the qemu tree seems
> > like a qemu side decision.
> >
> >> There's no real rush with
> >> this so if you have a release due shortly it might be better
> >> to wait for that.
> >
> > dtc/libfdt releases are a rather haphazard affair.  Usually they
> > happen when somebody complains that there hasn't been a release with
> > some feature they want.  Our tests are both fast to run and have
> > reasonaably good coverage, so random commits are usually good.  So a
> > "release" is usually just slapping a new version number onto whatever
> > is in master and making a tag and tarball.
> 
> >From my end I think we'd rather use a proper release version
> (if only because it's then easier to refer to and to state
> as a dependency for packaged versions if required). It looks
> like we've done that for our previous updates (starting
> with 1.3.0 and then moving to 1.4.0 and 1.4.2) so I think
> we should continue using released versions.

Ok, I've made the upstream release, and sent a pull request with an
update for the qemu submodule.  I've bundled it up with a SLOF update,
which I forgot to put in the ppc pull request I also made today.

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