In some cases you need to add a property but the contents of it
are not known at creation time, merely the extend of it.
This method allows you to create a property of a given size (filled
with garbage) while a pointer to the property data will be provided.
Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.anton...@konsulko.com>
[dwg: Corrected commit message]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
lib/libfdt/fdt_rw.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
lib/libfdt/libfdt.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/libfdt/fdt_rw.c b/lib/libfdt/fdt_rw.c
index 80a3212..3dc7752 100644
--- a/lib/libfdt/fdt_rw.c
+++ b/lib/libfdt/fdt_rw.c
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ int fdt_set_name(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char
*name)
return 0;
}
-int fdt_setprop(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
- const void *val, int len)
+int fdt_setprop_placeholder(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
+ int len, void **prop_data)
{
struct fdt_property *prop;
int err;
@@ -242,8 +242,22 @@ int fdt_setprop(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char
*name,
if (err)
return err;
+ *prop_data = prop->data;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int fdt_setprop(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
+ const void *val, int len)
+{
+ void *prop_data;
+ int err;
+
+ err = fdt_setprop_placeholder(fdt, nodeoffset, name, len, &prop_data);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
if (len)
- memcpy(prop->data, val, len);
+ memcpy(prop_data, val, len);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/lib/libfdt/libfdt.h b/lib/libfdt/libfdt.h
index f3f9cad..6af94cb 100644
--- a/lib/libfdt/libfdt.h
+++ b/lib/libfdt/libfdt.h
@@ -1405,6 +1405,37 @@ int fdt_setprop(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char
*name,
const void *val, int len);
/**
+ * fdt_setprop _placeholder - allocate space for a property
+ * @fdt: pointer to the device tree blob
+ * @nodeoffset: offset of the node whose property to change
+ * @name: name of the property to change
+ * @len: length of the property value
+ * @prop_data: return pointer to property data
+ *
+ * fdt_setprop_placeholer() allocates the named property in the given node.
+ * If the property exists it is resized. In either case a pointer to the
+ * property data is returned.
+ *
+ * This function may insert or delete data from the blob, and will
+ * therefore change the offsets of some existing nodes.
+ *
+ * returns:
+ * 0, on success
+ * -FDT_ERR_NOSPACE, there is insufficient free space in the blob to
+ * contain the new property value
+ * -FDT_ERR_BADOFFSET, nodeoffset did not point to FDT_BEGIN_NODE tag
+ * -FDT_ERR_BADLAYOUT,
+ * -FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC,
+ * -FDT_ERR_BADVERSION,
+ * -FDT_ERR_BADSTATE,
+ * -FDT_ERR_BADSTRUCTURE,
+ * -FDT_ERR_BADLAYOUT,
+ * -FDT_ERR_TRUNCATED, standard meanings
+ */
+int fdt_setprop_placeholder(void *fdt, int nodeoffset, const char *name,
+ int len, void **prop_data);
+
+/**
* fdt_setprop_u32 - set a property to a 32-bit integer
* @fdt: pointer to the device tree blob
* @nodeoffset: offset of the node whose property to change
--
2.1.4
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