[RFC PATCH 0/1] Categorize ARM dts directory

[Florian Fainelli]

On 5/2/23 12:40, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 3:15 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, at 17:57, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 2:28 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does your script also cater for .dts files not matching any pattern,
>>>> but including a .dtsi file that does match a pattern?
>>>
>>> I assume I built everything after moving, but maybe not...
>>>
>>> That's all just "details". First, we need agreement on a) moving
>>> things to subdirs and b) doing it 1-by-1 or all at once. So far we've
>>> been stuck on a) for being 'too much churn'.
>>
>> Sorry for missing most of the discussion last week. The script sounds
>> fine to me, the only reason I didn't want to do this in the past is that
>> we had the plan to move platforms out of the kernel tree to an external
>> repository and I wanted to do this platform at a time and also only move
>> each one once. I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon now,
>> so let's just do your script.
>>
>> Can you send me the script and/or a pull request of the resulting
>> tree based on my soc/dt branch? Everything is merged upstream,
>> and I think git-merge would handle the remaining merges with any
>> other changes in mainline.
> 
> I've dusted off my script and made a branch[1] with the result.
> There's just a couple of fixes needed after the script is run (see the
> top commit). The cross arch includes are all fixed up by the script.
> dtbs_install maintains a flat install. I compared the number of .dtbs
> before and after to check the script.
> 
> I think the only issue remaining is finalizing the mapping of
> platforms to subdirs. What I have currently is a mixture of SoC
> families and vendors. The most notable are all the Freescale/NXP
> platforms, pxa, socfpga, and stm32. It's not consistent with arm64
> either. Once that's finalized, I still need to go update MAINTAINERS.
> 
> Here's the current mapping:
> 
> vendor_map = {
>      'alphascale' : 'alphascale',
>      'alpine' : 'alpine',
>      'artpec' : 'axis',
>      'axm' : 'lsi',
>      'cx9' : 'cnxt',
>      'ecx' : 'calxeda',
>      'highbank' : 'calxeda',
>      'ep7' : 'cirrus',
>      'mxs': 'mxs',
>      'imx23': 'mxs',
>      'imx28': 'mxs',
>      'sun' : 'allwinner',
>      'imx': 'imx',
>      'e6' : 'imx',
>      'e7' : 'imx',
>      'mba6' : 'imx',
>      'ls': 'fsl',
>      'vf': 'fsl',
>      'qcom': 'qcom',
>      'am3' : 'ti',
>      'am4' : 'ti',
>      'am5' : 'ti',
>      'dra' : 'ti',
>      'keystone' : 'ti',
>      'omap' : 'ti',
>      'compulab' : 'ti',
>      'logicpd' : 'ti',
>      'elpida' : 'ti',
>      'motorola' : 'ti',
>      'twl' : 'ti',
>      'da' : 'ti',
>      'dm' : 'ti',
>      'nspire' : 'nspire',
>      'armada' : 'marvell',
>      'dove' : 'marvell',
>      'kirkwood' : 'marvell',
>      'orion' : 'marvell',
>      'mvebu' : 'marvell',
>      'mmp' : 'marvell',
>      'berlin' : 'berlin',
>      'pxa2' : 'pxa',
>      'pxa3' : 'pxa',
>      'pxa' : 'marvell',
>      'arm-' : 'arm',
>      'integ' : 'arm',
>      'mps' : 'arm',
>      've' : 'arm',
>      'aspeed' : 'aspeed',
>      'ast2' : 'aspeed',
>      'facebook' : 'aspeed',
>      'ibm' : 'aspeed',
>      'openbmc' : 'aspeed',
>      'en7' : 'airoha',
>      'at91' : 'microchip',
>      'sama' : 'microchip',
>      'sam9' : 'microchip',
>      'usb_' : 'microchip',
>      'tny_' : 'microchip',
>      'mpa1600' : 'microchip',
>      'animeo_ip' : 'microchip',
>      'aks-cdu' : 'microchip',
>      'ethernut5' : 'microchip',
>      'evk-pro3' : 'microchip',
>      'pm9g45' : 'microchip',
>      'ge86' : 'microchip',
>      'bcm' : 'brcm',

How about we use 'broadcom' here, to follow what arm64 does? I could 
rename arch/mips/boot/dts/brcm to arch/mips/boot/dts/broadcom for 
consistency, too?
-- 
Florian