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

[Heiko Stuebner <heiko-4mtYJXux2i+zQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>]

Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2017, 21:54:09 CEST schrieb Olof Johansson:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Heiko Stuebner <heiko-4mtYJXux2i+zQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 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-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.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?
> 
> Sigh. I completely dropped the ball on this, and I didn't see it
> included in any of your pull requests for 4.12 since I never actually
> acked that approach.
> 
> I've applied the patches onto a dt/include-paths stable branch, but
> we're late for merging dependent code on top of it for 4.12.

Didn't you merge the patches into a branch already and the rk3399-gru
support on top of it?

Aka
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc.git/log/?h=shared/dt-symlinks

Which one of my previous pull requests was already based on.


Heiko

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