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Commit 1564034e authored by Pantelis Antoniou's avatar Pantelis Antoniou Committed by Alistair Strachan
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BACKPORT: of/overlay: Introduce DT overlay support



Overlays are a method to dynamically modify part of the kernel's
device tree with dynamically loaded data. Add the core functionality to
parse, apply and remove an overlay changeset. The core functionality
takes care of managing the overlay data format and performing the add
and remove. Drivers are expected to use the overlay functionality to
support custom expansion busses commonly found on consumer development
boards like the BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi.

The overlay code uses CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC changesets to perform the low
level work of modifying the devicetree.

Documentation about internal and APIs is provided in
	Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt

v2:
- Switch from __of_node_alloc() to __of_node_dup()
- Documentation fixups
- Remove 2-pass processing of properties
- Remove separate ov_lock; just use the DT mutex.
v1:
- Drop delete capability using '-' prefix. The '-' prefixed names
are valid properties and nodes and there is no need for it just yet.
- Do not update special properties - name & phandle ones.
- Change order of node attachment, so that the special property update
works.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGrant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
(cherry picked from commit 7518b5890d8ac366faa2326ce2356ef6392ce63d)
Bug: 109890997
Change-Id: I38046084a6724038957d60a98a401ce47f87499d
[jstultz: Resolved minor merge collisions]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
parent c485b9a5
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