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

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:09:50PM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

Hi Jason,

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jason Cooper [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:26:29PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

quoted

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

Yep, typo on my part.

thx,

Jason.