Re: [PATCH v5] dtb: Create a common home for cross-architecture dtsi files.
From: Olof Johansson <hidden>
Date: 2015-08-23 23:13:57
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Rob Herring [off-list ref] wrote:
+arm-soc On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Ian Campbell [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 17:06 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:quoted
Commit 9ccd608070b6 ("arm64: dts: add device tree for ARM SMM-A53x2 on LogicTile Express 20MG") added a new dts file to arch/arm64 which included "../../../../arm/boot/dts/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi", i.e. a .dtsi supplied by arch/arm. Unfortunately this causes some issues for the split device tree repository[0], since things get moved around there. In that context the new .dts ends up at src/arm64/arm/vexpress-v2f-1xv7-ca53x2.dts while the include is at src/arm/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi.Hi Grant, Do you think there is any chance of getting this into 4.2-rc$NEXT or shall we wait until 4.3? I'm assuming this should go via the DT tree, but maybe it should go via an ARM tree?I was assuming this would go thru the arm-soc tree which is why I acked it. It is getting a bit late for 4.2 at this point, but I guess the standalone tree remains broken for these platforms until this is done. Probably not such a big deal in grand scheme of things.
I'm cc:d in the far tail of a thread, so I'll just comment here instead of further up: I'm not a fan at all of creating kernel/dts/<arch>/*, at least if there's expected to be contents in there. We don't have include/linux/asm-<arch>/ in the common tree either. Let's not create that for dts. So, while I'm all for a prefix-based sharing of DTSI files, I don't want them to go in a common kernel/dts directory. Besides sharing some snippets between arm and arm64, what else is expected to need to go into such a shared location today? -Olof