On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:16:02AM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:11:57AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 27 February 2017 at 01:05, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:35:35AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > > >> On 24 February 2017 at 00:16, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > > >> wrote: > > >> > Ok, I've pushed libfdt upstream patches to (a) make passing NULL to > > >> > setprop() with zero length explicitly safe and (b) add an > > >> > fdt_setprop_empty() helper macro. Do you want me to make a pullreq to > > >> > update the qemu submodule? > > >> > > >> Yes, please. Are we OK with using a random libfdt commit or do > > >> we update only to proper release tags? > > > > > > I'm find with a random SHA, but that's not really my department - I'm > > > upstream libfdt maintainer, but update policy in the qemu tree seems > > > like a qemu side decision. > > > > > >> There's no real rush with > > >> this so if you have a release due shortly it might be better > > >> to wait for that. > > > > > > dtc/libfdt releases are a rather haphazard affair. Usually they > > > happen when somebody complains that there hasn't been a release with > > > some feature they want. Our tests are both fast to run and have > > > reasonaably good coverage, so random commits are usually good. So a > > > "release" is usually just slapping a new version number onto whatever > > > is in master and making a tag and tarball. > > > > >From my end I think we'd rather use a proper release version > > (if only because it's then easier to refer to and to state > > as a dependency for packaged versions if required). It looks > > like we've done that for our previous updates (starting > > with 1.3.0 and then moving to 1.4.0 and 1.4.2) so I think > > we should continue using released versions. > > Ok; I just tagged and released dtc 1.4.3. I'll send a qemu update > when I get a chance to remind myself how to do submodule updates > again.
Uh.. actually, first I need the qemu mirror of dtc to be updated to
include the new release. Is that synced automatically, or does
someone need to kick it?
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