[PATCH 0/6] Rename DTB overlay source files

Andrew Davis afd at ti.com
Mon Oct 24 10:29:10 PDT 2022


On 10/24/22 7:28 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 8:24 PM Andrew Davis <afd at ti.com> wrote:
>> This is a series based on my patch here[0]. As suggested by Rob
>> I've resurrected Frank's patch and appended it to mine as a series.
>>
>> First patch here is my original patch, 3rd is Frank's patch but with
>> the unittest changes pulled out into the 2nd patch. That was re-worked
>> moving the source building macro into scripts/Makefile.lib.
>>
>> Patches 4, 5, and 6 are an attempt at renaming all the existing DTB
>> overlays. Split out by platform so they could be taken by platform
>> maintainers or if easier ACK'd here and taken all together.
>>
>> This should cover all the DTB overlays so we can remove the old .dts
>> rule for overlays and make .dtso the only supported way, let me know
>> if we want that this cycle and I can post that too.
> 
> Thanks a lot for picking this up!
> 
> Everything builds still fine, and the OF unit tests still run fine, so
> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> 
> BTW, you missed the Smarthome-Wolf Pi433 overlay[1] and its
> documentation[2] under drivers/staging/, but perhaps that was
> intentional, as it is not tied into the build system?
> 

Wasn't really sure about that one, but it seems simple enough to rename,
will add a patch for that in v2. Will also fix the wording in the last
3 patches as suggested.

Thanks,
Andrew

> [1] drivers/staging/pi433/Documentation/devicetree/pi433-overlay.dts
> [2] drivers/staging/pi433/Documentation/devicetree/pi433.txt
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                          Geert
> 
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