Re: [PATCH] Introduce fdt_setprop_placeholder() method

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 05:46:58PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

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
which will be set to zero while a pointer to the property data
will be provided.

Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou-OWPKS81ov/FWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
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 /**
+ * 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 it filled with
+ * zeroes and if a prop_data argument is provided a pointer to the
+ * property data is returned.

Doc comment hasn't been updated to reflect the latest chnages (not zeroed).

+ * 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

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