Hello Péter,

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:

When booted with some resource will have their name set to NULL. This can
cause later kernel crash since this is not expected by the platform code.

When we boot without DT the devices are created with platform_device_add()
which itself fixes up the missing resource names:
if (r->name == NULL)
	r->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);

The of core also fixes up the resource names when taking the information
from DT data - in __of_address_to_resource():
r->name = name ? name : dev->full_name;

When we boot OMAP with devicetree: of will create the devices based on the
DT data so the resource names are guarantied to be not NULL. Since we have
the 'ti,hwmod' tag, we remove the of created resources from the device and
re-create them based on hwmod data. If the hwmod data does not specify a
name for a resource it will be NULL.
This can cause kernel crash if the driver uses
platform_get_resource_byname() to get any resource.

Do we need both this one and your '[PATCH] driver core: Check if r->name 
is valid in platform_get_resource_byname()' ?  Or would that second patch 
be enough?  Is the crash happening in the platform_get_resource_byname() 
iterator?


- Paul