linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] arm64: dts: Add symlinks for cros-ec-keyboard and cros-ec-sbs

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Message-ID: <1529949.5djtX72aeJ@phil>
Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:20:48 +0100
From:   Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:     Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..." <linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Chris Zhong <zyw@...k-chips.com>,
        Stephen Barber <smbarber@...omium.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Caesar Wang <wxt@...k-chips.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] arm64: dts: Add symlinks for cros-ec-keyboard and cros-ec-sbs

Hi Olof,

Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 15:47:31 CET schrieb Olof Johansson:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org> wrote:
> > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> > 
> > We'd like to be able to use the cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi and
> > cros-ec-sbs.dtsi snippets for arm64 devices.  Currently those files live
> > in the arm/boot/dts directory.
> > 
> > Let's follow the convention set by commit 8ee57b8182c4 ("ARM64: dts:
> > vexpress: Use a symlink to vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm") and use
> > a symlink.  Note that in this case we put the files in a new
> > "include/common" directory since these snippets may need to be
> > referenced by dts files in many different subdirectories.
> 
> I'd rather have something like this:
> 
> https://marc.info/?m=147547436324674&w=2
> 
> Instead of having everybody move things over. I.e. make it easy to
> refer to the arm version from arm64 instead of creating a "common"
> layer inbetween.

just so it gets noticed, I've done and tested [0], which hopefully should
implement your suggestions above.

If that looks ok, how do you want that picked up? Should I just include
them in my regular rockchip branches or do you to pick them into some
immutable branch, if other surprise-users turn up in time for 4.12?


Thanks
Heiko


[0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-rockchip/2017-February/014226.html