[PATCH 0/9] ARM: tegra: use new dtc+cpp feature

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Feb 14 12:03:33 EST 2013


* Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> [130213 13:37]:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> This series converts the Tegra device tree files to use the new feature
> of running cpp over .dts files before compiling them with dtc. This
> allows GPIOs and other GPIO/IRQ specifier cells to be named for example.
> 
> As far as merging goes, I'd anticipate the first 3 patches being useful
> to any other ARM sub-arch that wants to convert; perhaps they could go
> through some arm-soc common branch. The next 2 patches are Tegra-specific
> cleanup that I'd anticipate applying to Tegra's for-3.10/cleanup. The
> rest of the patches depend on those 5 previous patches, so would need to
> go into a Tegra branch that merges in the previous patches; I'd anticipate
> calling it for-3.10/dtc-cpp say.

Great! This will help a lot with making the .dts* files readable.
 
> One issue this raises: The first 2 patches aren't ARM-specific. I put the
> files they create into arch/arm/boot/dts, but I wonder if they wouldn't be
> better in some arch-agnostic include directory, or even right with the
> binding documentation in Documentation/devicetree/bindings. Moving the
> files would require adjusting the cpp include path.

I'd assume this will be used by many architectures, so it would probably
be a good idea to make them common to start with.

Regards,

Tony



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