[PATCHv5 1/6] ARM: dts: Add SoC level device tree support for LS1021A

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sun Oct 19 12:17:56 PDT 2014


On Sunday 19 October 2014 09:17:46 Shawn Guo wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/ls1021a.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/ls1021a.dtsi
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..5075c18
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/ls1021a.dtsi
> > @@ -0,0 +1,405 @@
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> 
> DT maintainers,
> 
> I would like to confirm this is a appropriate copyright for device tree
> sources, as it sets the example how we should migrate from the existing
> GPL.  If we merge it, I assume that a lot of future files will likely
> follow the example.

The license is fine as far as I can tell, but the first half mentions
'library' three times, and that should probably be changed to 'file'.

The Allwinner dts files had the same text and are now changing it to
say 'file'.

	Arnd



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