linux-kernel - Re: common location for devicetree files

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Message-Id: <5957C301-9698-45B0-BFED-749DE79D0A74@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2013 11:59:56 -0600
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>
To:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
Cc:	devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: common location for devicetree files


On Nov 8, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Jason Cooper wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 05:21:58PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> As we start having more sharing of device trees between architectures
>> (arm & arm64, arm & powerpc, guessing maybe mips & arm) we need dts to
>> live in location that 
>> 
>> I was wondering what people felt about doing:
>> 
>> 	arch/dts/<VENDOR>/
>> 
>> as a common location that could be shared.  I'm up for other
>> suggestions.
> 
> What do we really need to do before the move?  Should all arch dts files
> be able to #include from any arch?  What's the minimum churn needed to
> accomplish that?  Maybe just move the needed bits to arch/dts/include/ ?
> 
> I'm not real keen on separating by vendor.  For example, us mvebu folks
> would probably miss useful/duplicated effort in another vendor's
> subdirectory.  Which was the whole reason for moving driver code out of
> machine directories to begin with.


Can you explain that further, what would you miss from other vendors.  All the patches should still be going via devicetree ML.

- k

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