linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] of: unittest: rename overlay source files from .dts to .dtso

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Date:   Sat, 27 Mar 2021 11:40:35 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     frowand.list@...il.com
Cc:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        anmar.oueja@...aro.org, Bill Mills <bill.mills@...aro.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] of: unittest: rename overlay source files from .dts
 to .dtso

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 05:37:13PM -0500, frowand.list@...il.com wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
> 
> Add Makefile rule to build .dtbo.o assembly file from overlay .dtso
> source file.
> 
> Rename unittest .dts overlay source files to use .dtso suffix.

I'm pretty lukewarm on .dtso...

> 
> Update Makefile to build .dtbo.o objects instead of .dtb.o from
> unittest overlay source files.
> 
> Modify unitest.c to use .dtbo.o based symbols instead of .dtb.o
> 
> Modify Makefile.lib %.dtbo rule to depend upon %.dtso instead of %.dts
> 
> Documentation/devicetree/of_unittest.rst was already out of date.
> This commit would make it even more out of date.  Delete the document
> instead of continuing the maintenance burden of keeping the document
> in sync with the source.

This should be a separate change. It's also going to collide with my doc 
improvements.

Improvements here would be better than just deleting.