Re: DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming? | linuxppc-dev

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:37:54PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:30:01 +1000
David Gibson [off-list ref] wrote:

Except didn't you say you were going to work with Stephen to get DTC
into the kernel source itself?  Keeping things similar to Kbuild might
help in that effort.
Actually, after discussions with Stephen and Paulus, we decided not to
take this route.  In any case having Kbuild like versioning wouldn't
actually help us any in integrating into a full Kbuild system.
Can you elaborate why you decided not to?  I'm just curious.
We decided that since a formal dtc release was imminent, it would be
simpler to make dtc a new kernel build requirement, rather than
integrate the substantial blob of dtc code into the kernel tree and
then have to deal with the maintenance / synchronization issues
between the in-kernel and upstream versions.

Have a look at the patch I posted.  I haven't sufficiently tested it
yet, but it should be able to generated version info for a tarball too
(provided the .git-manifest file is included, and I'm intending that
will be build by a make dist target).  It will give both the
git-derived based version, and a file content derived hash so we can
robustly tell different builds apart, all with less code than the
current system.
That may be.  But I don't see the current approach being too much of a
problem either.  Especially given that it's already there and it
works.  Oh, and you sent out your patch saying it wasn't ready for
merge and with no sign off.  Small but important issues to fix I'd
think.
Yeah, it lacks a make dist target, and needs a bit more work to
support that properly.  Never mind, I'll revisit this post the 1.0
release.
Ok.

josh
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