[PATCH v2 1/5] tools headers arm64: Copy sysreg-defs generation from kernel source

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Oct 11 11:13:39 PDT 2023


On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 06:05:11PM +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 05:59:28PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 05:51:57PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:

> > > Rather than a copy, which makes the maintenance pretty horrible, why
> > > don't you just symlink it? Git is perfectly capable of storing them,
> > > last time I checked.

> > Do we even need to symlink - as I suggested on the previous version can
> > we not just reference the script and data file directly in the main
> > kernel tree?  Like I said then there may be some use case for building

> So long as we aren't going to do any further renames I don't have an
> issue with this approach.

It doesn't seem likely, and it feels like it's reasonable to ask anyone
who wants to do them to ensure they take care of the tools/ directory as
part of it.
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