[PATCH V7 1/7] kbuild: centralize .dts->.dtb rule

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Nov 28 12:44:26 EST 2012


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:29:10PM +0000, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> All architectures that use cmd_dtc do so in almost the same way. Create
> a central build rule to avoid duplication. The one difference is that
> most current uses of dtc build $(obj)/%.dtb from $(src)/dts/%.dts rather
> than building the .dtb in the same directory as the .dts file. This
> difference will be eliminated arch-by-arch in future patches.
> 
> MIPS is the exception here; it already uses the exact same rule as the
> new common rule, so the duplicate is removed in this patch to avoid any
> conflict. arch/mips changes courtesy of Ralf Baechle.
> 
> Update Documentation/kbuild to remove the explicit call to cmd_dtc from
> the example, now that the rule exists in a centralized location.
> 
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas at southpole.se>
> Cc: linux at lists.openrisc.net
> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot at ti.com>
> Cc: linux-c6x-dev at linux-c6x.org
> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>
> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu>
> Cc: microblaze-uclinux at itee.uq.edu.au
> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris at zankel.net>
> Cc: linux-xtensa at linux-xtensa.org
> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>




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