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

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Date:   Thu, 04 May 2023 13:44:37 +0200
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To:     "Russell King" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "Rob Herring" <robh+dt@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Categorize ARM dts directory

On Thu, May 4, 2023, at 12:11, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 02:40:19PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> I think the only issue remaining is finalizing the mapping of
>> platforms to subdirs. What I have currently is a mixture of SoC
>> families and vendors. The most notable are all the Freescale/NXP
>> platforms, pxa, socfpga, and stm32. It's not consistent with arm64
>> either. Once that's finalized, I still need to go update MAINTAINERS.
>
> I haven't followed this discussion at all, so here's a question.
>
> What does this mean for the _installed_ dtb files? Do they move
> location? If they do, lots is going to break, because there will
> be u-boot configurations and other scripts that assume the flat
> directory structure for the installed dtb files.
>
> I don't think changing the installed dtb structure is acceptable
> at this point in time. It's something that _should_ have been
> thought about when ARM was converted to dtb, it's too late to be
> changing that now.

Rob said earlier that his script does keep a flat directory
for the output of 'make dtbs_install'.

     Arnd