[PATCH V6] kbuild: dtbs_install: new make target

[swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren)]

On 12/01/2013 04:56 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> Unlike other build products in the Linux kernel, there is no 'make
> *install' mechanism to put devicetree blobs in a standard place.
> 
> This patch is an attempt to fix this problem.  Akin to 'make install',
> this creates a new make target, dtbs_install.  The script that gets
> called defers to a distribution or user supplied installdtbs binary,
> if found in the system.  Otherwise, the default action is to install the
> built dtbs into
> 
>   /lib/devicetrees/${kernel_version}/${dts_filename}.dtb
> 
> This is done to keep dtbs from different kernel versions separate until
> things have settled down.  Once the dtbs are stable, and not so strongly
> linked to the kernel version, the devicetree files will most likely move
> to their own repo.  Users will need to upgrade install scripts at that
> time.
> 
> /lib has been selected over /boot since /boot is often a FAT filesystem
> and a majority of the dts filenames are longer than 8+3.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
> ---
> Note: Stephen, I haven't added your Ack because I wanted to make sure you were
> Ok with the change to /lib in light of /boot partitions formatted to FAT

This script shouldn't be installing directly to the filesystem, but
rather some staging area that then gets copied to the desired location
by distro-/use-specific scripts. As such, the filesystem in /boot isn't
relevant.

But that said, I won't try and NAK it because of that.