[RFC DTC PATCH] dtc: add symlink (-L) output to dtbs

[Jason Cooper]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:09:50PM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:26:29PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >> We have ways and means to deal with the installation of kernel images
> >> and modules.  There's well defined makefile targets for this, and
> >> make variables which control where and how these get put.  For the
> >> kernel image, you can specify the script to be run (which is called
> >> with the location of the *Image file) for copying.  Pulling it manually
> >> out of arch/arm/boot is really a failure of the distro packaging people
> >> to get their process right.
> >>
> >> The same goes for the DT files: if we don't provide a method for the
> >> kernel build system to install these in a sane way, then that's our
> >> failing.  However, distros should be asking for this, and not picking
> >> the files out of arch/arm/boot/dts.
> >
> > Exactly.  V2 hopefully this weekend implementing 'make dtbs-install'
> 
> Just a small comment, I think the make target should be called
> 'dtbs_install and not of 'dtbs-install' to be consistent with make
> {modules,firmware,headers}_install

Yep, typo on my part.

thx,

Jason.