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

[Stephen Warren]

On 11/30/2012 09:01 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 11/27/2012 05:29 PM, 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>
>> ---
>> This is based on next-20121126.
>>
> 
> I'll apply the series but I need a stable base. Looks like xtensa has
> the dependency. Or I can just drop xtensa.

I was assuming this series would be applied for 3.9, hence hadn't
rebased it onto anything stable yet. Are you wanting to apply it
earlier? If so, I'll look into how it fits on top of 3.7-rc7.