[RFC DTC PATCH] dtc: add symlink (-L) output to dtbs

[Rob Herring]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 01:29 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
>> Consumers of the Linux kernel's build products are beginning to hardcode
>> the filenames of the dtbs generated.  Since the dtb filenames are
>> currently the dts filename s/dts/dtb/, this prevents the kernel
>> community from renaming dts files as needed.
>
> My take is that the DTB filenames are part of the ABI, and therefore the
> DTS filenames are also part of the ABI. Why would we want to rename them?

I agree with the ABI part, but for long term I think compatible
strings are a better choice for the ABI than filenames. A link
provides for a way to transition.

Whether a platform can tolerate a filename change is really up to the
platform maintainer like other ABI changes.

Rob