[PATCH] ppc64: fix missing RELOCs, add linux,phandle property
This fixes a couple of bugs in arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c. We were missing a couple of places where we needed to use RELOC(). I added the RELOC in one case, and in the other, moved the variable that we were accessing onto the stack (and reduced its size). (We use the variable to get a property value, but we aren't interested in the value, just in whether the property exists or not. Since we pass the size of the variable to the OF getprop call, it won't overflow.) The effect of missing the RELOCs would be that random memory locations get used on IBM pSeries systems (possibly causing random boot failures). The other thing that this does is add a linux,phandle property to each node, containing the phandle for the node, which is the token that OF uses to identify the node. Some nodes reference other nodes by means of their phandle. Without the linux,phandle property, userspace code looking at the OF device-tree image in /proc/device-tree has no way of knowing which other node is being referenced. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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