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

Pankaj Dubey pankaj.dubey at samsung.com
Mon Jan 27 06:04:50 EST 2014


On 01/10/2014 07:54 PM, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> 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
Gentle Ping.

Best Regards,
Pankaj Dubey



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