[PATCH V5] kbuild: dtbs_install: new make target

[Jason Cooper]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:42:24AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:36:47 -0800, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Nov 21, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Unlike other build products in the Linux kernel, there is no 'make
> > >> *install' mechanism to put devicetree blobs in a standard place.
> > >>
> > >> This patch is an attempt to fix this problem.  Akin to 'make install',
> > >> this creates a new make target, dtbs_install.  The script that gets
> > >> called defers to a distribution or user supplied installdtbs binary,
> > >> if found in the system.  Otherwise, the default action is to install a
> > >> given dtb into
> > >>
> > >>  /boot/devicetrees/${kernel_version}/${dts_filename}.dtb
> > 
> > Random bikeshed of the day. Maybe this was already covered in the long
> > thread and just tell me to shut up and go away if it was and I'm not
> > presenting new arguments:
> > 
> > I like this whole approach, but I'm all for shorter pathnames as long
> > as they are unique. Also, keeping it below 8 can be useful for FAT
> > /boot filesystems. I propose /boot/dtb/ instead.
> 
> Makes sense to me.

hmm, following that logic, there are 497 dts files in todays HEAD.  Only
116 of those are 8 characters or less (114 if you remove dupes).  Which
means a vast majority of dtb file names would have issues in Olof's
scenario.

Might I re-suggest /lib/devicetrees (or, /lib/dtb, or /lib/dtbs)?

thx,

Jason.