[PATCH] ARM: devicetree: Add .dtb files to arch/arm/boot/.gitignore

[dave.martin@linaro.org (Dave Martin)]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:46:59AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:20:24AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:46:14PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > Compiled device tree blobs shouldn't be committed in the kernel
> > > tree, so ideally git should ignore them.
> > > 
> > > This patch will enable ignoring of any .dtb files which appear in
> > > arch/arm/boot/
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> > 
> > I added my ack tag on the same patch below, but it died in the end?
> > 
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/144097
> 
> I don't mind too much which patch goes in -- do we care about whether
> other .dtb files can be included in the kernel?
> 
> 
> I would suggest that it is just plain wrong for _binary_ devicetree
> blobs to appear in the kernel tree, since there is a readily usable
> source form for the same thing (this isn't firmware)
> 
> Do we think that the '.dtb' filename extension might get used foro
> something else?

Never mind, it looks like Grant merged my patch anyway.

Cheers
---Dave