Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2012-03-12

Re: [PATCH] dtc: Add -i option to support search paths

From: Jon Loeliger <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-12 13:54:34

It is often inconvenient to place device tree files in the same directory
as their includes, or to specify the full path to include files.

An example of this is in U-Boot where we have a .dtsi file for each SOC
type, and this is included by the board .dts file. We need to either use
a mechanism like:

/include/ ARCH_CPU_DTS

with sed or cpp to perform the replacement with the correct path, or
we must specify the full path in the file:

/include/ "../../arch/arm/dts/tegra20.dtsi"

The first option is not desirable since it requires anyone compiling the
file to first pre-process it. The second is not desirable since it
introduces a path which is project-specific into a file which is supposed
to be a hardware description. For example Linux and U-Boot are unlikely to
put these include files in the same place.

It is much more convenient to specify the search patch on the command line
as is done with C pre-processors, for example.

Introduce a -i option to add to the list of search paths used to find
source and include files.

We cannot use -I as it is already in use. Other suggestions welcome.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <redacted>
Any comments here?  I'm inclined to aply it as is.

Thanks,
jdl
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