linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] scripts: dtc: Merge in changes from the dtc repository

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Message-ID: <20101118034145.GB7256@yookeroo>
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:41:45 +1100
From:	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
To:	Jon Loeliger <jdl@....com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>, glikely@...retlab.ca,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	John Bonesio <bones@...retlab.ca>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] scripts: dtc: Merge in changes from the dtc
 repository

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:47:55AM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:49:51PM -0800, John Bonesio wrote:
> > > Pull in recent changes from the main dtc repository. These changes primarily
> > > allow multiple device trees to be declared which are merged by dtc. This
> > > feature allows us to include a basic dts file and then provide more informatio
> > n
> > > for the specific system through the merging functionality.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: John Bonesio <bones@...retlab.ca>
> > 
> > Jon & David, I'll need your input on whether or not this is the best
> > way to handle updating the dtc copy in the kernel tree.
> > 
> > g.
> 
> Grant,
> 
> Yeah, I wondered too. :-)  David added it and updated
> in the kernel last round, so he may have some good notion
> of what would be best there.

For now I think just a direct diff updating the in-kernel dtc to
current upstream is the simplest approach.  This is how I made the
original commit.

There may be better methods to directly arrange for pulling of the dtc
git tree into the kernel git tree, but I have not had time to
investigate and set up such a scheme.

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