linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Categorize ARM dts directory

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXDDNTgBdJTa8+H1H5v1gAarp07xxWu_E1JL8mXS8HPMg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:04:11 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Cc:     Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Categorize ARM dts directory

Hi Tony,

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:03 AM Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
> * Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com> [220328 08:53]:
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 at 09:09, Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@...il.com> wrote:
> > > as the title say, the intention of this ""series"" is to finally categorize
> > > the ARM dts directory in subdirectory for each oem.
> >
> > While I agree with this change and think it's for the good (browsing
> > the ARM dts directory at the moment is frustrating..) I think
> > buildroot and others need to be told about this as it'll potentially
> > break their kernel build scripting for ARM and probably messes up the
> > configs they have for existing boards.
>
> Yeah.. And ideally this would be done in smaller steps as these will
> conflict with all the other pending patches.
>
> For example, I have a pile of pending omap clock clean-up dts patches
> posted and tested waiting for v5.19-rc1 to apply. I'd rather not start
> redoing or fixing up the patches with sed :)

Git merge/rebase/cherry-pick should handle renames fine?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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