linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: symlink cros-ec-keyboard from arm to arm64

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:55:53 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
Cc:	"linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org" 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: symlink cros-ec-keyboard from arm to arm64

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 03:35:41PM +0100, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> The cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi snippet is useful for both arm and arm64 boards.
> Create a link between the two.
> 
> This may not be the most scalable solution, so consider it temporary until
> we find a more central repository for such shared .dtsi snippets.

I don't have strong opinions either way, but we should be consistent as
to whether we use relative paths:

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-June/350267.html

or symlinks, like below.

Does anybody have some technical arguments one way or the other?

Will

> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>  create mode 120000 arch/arm64/boot/dts/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi
> new file mode 120000
> index 0000000..42220ac
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +../../../arm/boot/dts/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi
> \ No newline at end of file
> -- 
> 2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c
> 
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