From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:24:11 -0700 Subject: [RFC DTC PATCH] dtc: add symlink (-L) output to dtbs In-Reply-To: <1384201760-16785-1-git-send-email-jason@lakedaemon.net> References: <1384201760-16785-1-git-send-email-jason@lakedaemon.net> Message-ID: <52814AFB.3070600@wwwdotorg.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 11/11/2013 01:29 PM, Jason Cooper wrote: > Consumers of the Linux kernel's build products are beginning to hardcode > the filenames of the dtbs generated. Since the dtb filenames are > currently the dts filename s/dts/dtb/, this prevents the kernel > community from renaming dts files as needed. My take is that the DTB filenames are part of the ABI, and therefore the DTS filenames are also part of the ABI. Why would we want to rename them? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [RFC DTC PATCH] dtc: add symlink (-L) output to dtbs Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:24:11 -0700 Message-ID: <52814AFB.3070600@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1384201760-16785-1-git-send-email-jason@lakedaemon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1384201760-16785-1-git-send-email-jason-NLaQJdtUoK4Be96aLqz0jA@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Cooper , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Rob Landley , Olof Johansson Cc: devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 11/11/2013 01:29 PM, Jason Cooper wrote: > Consumers of the Linux kernel's build products are beginning to hardcode > the filenames of the dtbs generated. Since the dtb filenames are > currently the dts filename s/dts/dtb/, this prevents the kernel > community from renaming dts files as needed. My take is that the DTB filenames are part of the ABI, and therefore the DTS filenames are also part of the ABI. Why would we want to rename them? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html