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

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hi Jason,

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:26:29PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> We have ways and means to deal with the installation of kernel images
>> and modules.  There's well defined makefile targets for this, and
>> make variables which control where and how these get put.  For the
>> kernel image, you can specify the script to be run (which is called
>> with the location of the *Image file) for copying.  Pulling it manually
>> out of arch/arm/boot is really a failure of the distro packaging people
>> to get their process right.
>>
>> The same goes for the DT files: if we don't provide a method for the
>> kernel build system to install these in a sane way, then that's our
>> failing.  However, distros should be asking for this, and not picking
>> the files out of arch/arm/boot/dts.
>
> Exactly.  V2 hopefully this weekend implementing 'make dtbs-install'

Just a small comment, I think the make target should be called
'dtbs_install and not of 'dtbs-install' to be consistent with make
{modules,firmware,headers}_install

>
> thx,
>
> Jason.
>

Best regards,
Javier