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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
To: frowand.list@gmail.com
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com,
	Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	geert@linux-m68k.org, Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] of: overlay: user space synchronization
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:35:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5408.1539650158@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539649621-5518-1-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:27:01 -0700, frowand.list@gmail.com said:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
>
> When an overlay is applied or removed, the live devicetree visible in
> /proc/device-tree/, aka /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/, reflects the
> changes.  There is no method for user space to determine whether the
> live devicetree was modified by overlay actions.
>
> Provide a sysfs file, /sys/firmware/devicetree/tree_version,  to allow
> user space to determine if the live devicetree has remained unchanged
> while a series of one or more accesses of /proc/device-tree/ occur.
>
> The use of both dynamic devicetree modifications and overlay apply and
> removal are not supported during the same boot cycle.  Thus non-overlay
> dynamic modifications are not reflected in the value of tree_version.

Is there an easy way from userspace to detect "yes/no dynamic modifications
have been done since boot"?

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-16  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-16  0:27 frowand.list
2018-10-16  0:35 ` valdis.kletnieks [this message]
2018-10-16  2:47   ` Frank Rowand
2018-10-16 20:04 ` Alan Tull
2018-10-16 21:08   ` Frank Rowand

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