On 05.09.14 07:48:30, Rob Herring wrote:

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Robert Richter [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

From: Robert Richter <redacted>

Move dtbs install rules to Makefile.dtbinst. This change is needed to
implement support for dts vendor subdirs. The change makes Makefiles
easier and smaller as no longer the dtbs_install rule needs to be
defined. Another advantage is that install goals are not encoded in
targets anymore (%.dtb_dtbinst_).

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <redacted>
---
 arch/arm/Makefile            |  6 +++++-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile   |  2 --
 arch/arm64/Makefile          |  6 +++++-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/Makefile |  2 --
 scripts/Kbuild.include       |  6 ++++++
 scripts/Makefile.dtbinst     | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/Makefile.lib         | 12 ------------
 7 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.dtbinst

diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 0ce9d0f71f2a..1963d9a9a2c4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile

@@ -313,9 +313,13 @@ $(BOOT_TARGETS): vmlinux
        $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot)/dts MACHINE=$(MACHINE) $(boot)/dts/$@

 PHONY += dtbs dtbs_install
-dtbs dtbs_install: prepare scripts
+
+dtbs: prepare scripts
        $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot)/dts MACHINE=$(MACHINE) $@

+dtbs_install:
+       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(dtbinst)=$(boot)/dts MACHINE=$(MACHINE)

Can't you get rid of MACHINE here, too?

I moved this change to the end of this patch series to let maintainers
the choise to drop the change if they are not fine with it.

-Robert