Hmm.. my reading of 1275 says that an alias pointing to another alias
is not permitted, but I'm not terribly confident I'm not misreading
it. Segher, do you know whether this is allowed?
My reading is the same: if after expanding an alias the path does
not start with "/", the search starts at t
David Gibson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:43:48PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:28:19AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
- if (*path != '/')
- return -FDT_ERR_BADPATH;
+ /* see if we have an alias */
+ if (*path != '/') {
+
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:43:48PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:28:19AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > - if (*path != '/')
> > - return -FDT_ERR_BADPATH;
> > + /* see if we have an alias */
> > + if (*path != '/') {
> > + const char *q;
> > +
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:28:19AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> - if (*path != '/')
> - return -FDT_ERR_BADPATH;
> + /* see if we have an alias */
> + if (*path != '/') {
> + const char *q;
> + int aliasoffset = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/aliases");
> +
> +
> If the path doesn't start with '/' check to see if it matches some alias
> under "/aliases" and substitute the matching alias value in the path
> and retry the lookup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied.
jdl
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:28:19AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> If the path doesn't start with '/' check to see if it matches some alias
> under "/aliases" and substitute the matching alias value in the path
> and retry the lookup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: David G
