[PATCH] arm64: dts: add <dt-bindings/> symlink

Lothar Waßmann LW at KARO-electronics.de
Fri Jan 10 05:54:32 EST 2014


Hi,

Pankaj Dubey wrote:
> On 01/10/2014 06:22 PM, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Pankaj Dubey wrote:
> >> Add symlink to include/dt-bindings from arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/ to
> >> match the ones in ARM architectures so that preprocessed device
> >> tree files can include various useful constant definitions.
> >>
> >> See commit c58299a (kbuild: create an "include chroot" for DT bindings)
> >> merged in v3.10-rc1 for details.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey at samsung.com>
> >> ---
> >>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings |    1 +
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>   create mode 120000 arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings
> >> new file mode 120000
> >> index 0000000..08c00e4
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings
> >> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> >> +../../../../../include/dt-bindings
> >> \ No newline at end of file
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I just created symlink file to "include/dt-bindings", and when created 
> patch it is showing this line
> at the end of patch. I do not have much idea why this came in patch? But 
> when I checked similar patches
> it looks like it is required.
>
I noticed after sending the email, that the file in question was
actually only a symlink. The message seems to be a 'feature' of
'patch' when dealing with symlinks.


Lothar Waßmann
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