linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: msm: Move msm devicetrees under a Qualcomm dir

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Message-ID: <CAOesGMhSZzpyT5XyECByLnvef0E+92y+uaXByiG0Vpm9f05AxQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:46:33 -0700
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
Cc:	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: msm: Move msm devicetrees under a Qualcomm dir

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com> wrote:

> As Stephen W has pointed out previously, the dtb filename itself is or
> may be an ABI and the bootloader may be hardcoded to a name. So we
> should avoid future renames.

We still have the choice of producing the dtb files under
arch/arm/boot/dts even if we move dts/dtsi files one level deeper, as
long as we keep the filenames consistent. So we can do a move, just
not a rename.


-Olof
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