[PATCH v2 1/3] device_tree: Add a helper function for string arrays

[Palmer Dabbelt]

The device tree format allows for arrays of strings, which are encoded
with '\0's inside regular strings.  These are ugly to represent in C, so
the helper function represents them as strings with internal '\0's that
are terminated with a double '\0'.  In other words, the array
["string1", "string2"] is represeted as "string1\0string2\0".

The DTB generated by this function is accepted by DTC and produces an
array of strings, but I can't find any explicit line in the DT
specification that defines how these are encoded.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@dabbelt.com>
---
 device_tree.c                | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 include/sysemu/device_tree.h |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/device_tree.c b/device_tree.c
index f8b46b3c73..b4379f13a7 100644
--- a/device_tree.c
+++ b/device_tree.c
@@ -397,6 +397,23 @@ int qemu_fdt_setprop_string(void *fdt, const char 
*node_path,
     return r;
 }
 
+static size_t stringarr_length(const char *strings)
+{
+    size_t count = 1;
+    while (strings[count - 1] != '\0' || strings[count] != '\0') {
+        count++;
+    }
+    return count;
+}
+
+int qemu_fdt_setprop_strings(void *fdt, const char *node_path,
+                            const char *property, const char *strings)
+{
+    size_t length = stringarr_length(strings);
+    return qemu_fdt_setprop(fdt, node_path, property, strings, length);
+}
+
+
 const void *qemu_fdt_getprop(void *fdt, const char *node_path,
                              const char *property, int *lenp, Error **errp)
 {
diff --git a/include/sysemu/device_tree.h b/include/sysemu/device_tree.h
index c16fd69bc0..d43c07128e 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/device_tree.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/device_tree.h
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ int qemu_fdt_setprop_string(void *fdt, const char *node_path,
 int qemu_fdt_setprop_phandle(void *fdt, const char *node_path,
                              const char *property,
                              const char *target_node_path);
+/*
+ * This uses a particularly odd encoding: "strings" is a list of strings that
+ * must be terminated by two back-to-back '\0' characters.
+ */
+int qemu_fdt_setprop_strings(void *fdt, const char *node_path,
+                             const char *property, const char *strings);
 /**
  * qemu_fdt_getprop: retrieve the value of a given property
  * @fdt: pointer to the device tree blob
-- 
2.21.0