linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: convert unittest overlay devicetree source to sugar syntax

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:14:45 -0800
From:   Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <panto@...oniou-consulting.com>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: convert unittest overlay devicetree source to
 sugar syntax

On 01/29/18 02:37, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:53 AM,  <frowand.list@...il.com> wrote:
>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
>>
>> The unittest-data overlays have been pulled into proper overlay
>> devicetree source files without changing their format.  The
>> next step is to convert them to use sugar syntax instead of
>> hand coding overlay fragments structure.
> 
> Cool! I had heard about the new syntax, but hadn't realized it was merged in
> v4.15-rc1.
> 
> Have you used your overlay_convert_old_to_new script to convert them?
> 
>> A few of the overlays can not be converted because they test
>> absolute target paths in the overlay fragment.  dtc does not
>> generate this type of target:
>>   overlay_0.dts
>>   overlay_1.dts
>>   overlay_12.dts
>>   overlay_13.dts
> 
> And I guess you want to keep at least a few tests using the non-sugar syntax
> anyway?

Not really.  But not something I care about at the moment.


> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds
>