of: Improve prom_update_property() function
prom_update_property() currently fails if the property doesn't
actually exist yet which isn't what we want. Change to add-or-update
instead of update-only, then we can remove a lot duplicated lines.
Suggested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
index eada3f4..bc86ea2 100644
--- a/drivers/of/base.c
+++ b/drivers/of/base.c
@@ -1073,7 +1073,8 @@
}
/*
- * prom_update_property - Update a property in a node.
+ * prom_update_property - Update a property in a node, if the property does
+ * not exist, add it.
*
* Note that we don't actually remove it, since we have given out
* who-knows-how-many pointers to the data using get-property.
@@ -1081,13 +1082,19 @@
* and add the new property to the property list
*/
int prom_update_property(struct device_node *np,
- struct property *newprop,
- struct property *oldprop)
+ struct property *newprop)
{
- struct property **next;
+ struct property **next, *oldprop;
unsigned long flags;
int found = 0;
+ if (!newprop->name)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ oldprop = of_find_property(np, newprop->name, NULL);
+ if (!oldprop)
+ return prom_add_property(np, newprop);
+
write_lock_irqsave(&devtree_lock, flags);
next = &np->properties;
while (*next) {