[PATCH 2/2] ARM: at91: move dts to subdir

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Wed Apr 10 13:47:32 EDT 2013


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 04/10/2013 03:17 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
>
> A patch description might be nice.
>
> This seems like a nice cleanup to keep the dts directory organized.
> However, it does mean that the *.dtb files get moved again. I know that
> when they moved from boot/ to boot/dts/ in 3.9 (or 3.8?) there were some
> complaints that this made it difficult to write scripts that find the
> built DTB and copy it somewhere. This change would cause the exact same
> problem again.
>
> Perhaps it's time to create an install_dtbs target to solve this problem?

Yes, that's a prerequisite in my opinion.

Also, I said in the previous thread that I want to hold this off for a
couple of releases since it's pure churn. So I'm not interested in
picking this up until 3.12. install_dtbs would be great to see for
3.11 though.


-Olof



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