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[XenPPC] [PATCH] Warn instead of fail on device_type fetch fail

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Subject: [XenPPC] [PATCH] Warn instead of fail on device_type fetch fail
From: Amos Waterland <apw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:55:13 -0500
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The latest release of SLOF is missing mandatory "device_type" nodes for
both ISA and system-controller (which are both busses).  Until this is
fixed, Xen fails to boot on that release of SLOF.  So work around it by
just printing a warning instead of a panic.

Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

 boot_of.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -r b30cb72ed5e2 xen/arch/powerpc/boot_of.c
--- a/xen/arch/powerpc/boot_of.c        Fri Nov 03 16:53:17 2006 -0500
+++ b/xen/arch/powerpc/boot_of.c        Tue Nov 21 13:50:23 2006 -0500
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ static int __init boot_of_serial(void *o
 
         rc = of_getprop(p, "device_type", type, sizeof (type));
         if (rc == OF_FAILURE)
-            of_panic("fetching device type failed\n");
+            of_printf("%s: fetching type of %s failed\n", __func__, buf);
 
         if (strcmp(type, "serial") != 0)
             continue;

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