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

Nicolas Ferre
2022-03-29T08:50:55Z

Ansuel, All,

On 28/03/2022 at 10:55, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> Hi Ansuel
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 at 09:09, Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> as the title say, the intention of this ""series"" is to finally categorize
>> the ARM dts directory in subdirectory for each oem.
>
> While I agree with this change and think it's for the good (browsing
> the ARM dts directory at the moment is frustrating..) I think
> buildroot and others need to be told about this as it'll potentially
> break their kernel build scripting for ARM and probably messes up the
> configs they have for existing boards.

This aspect mustn't be underestimated and I anticipate lots of issues
during a long time on this particular topic of "build systems".

Another aspect is CI and public or private testing farms we all have
running.

These aspects always refrained me to change anything in the naming
scheme of our DT files, but if we go in this direction, we must really
be prepared and I'm still not convince it's worth it...

If this has to happen, I would also like to queue some file name changes
to do all modifications in one go in order to lower the annoyance level
of those who would need to adapt to those changes.

BTW, is there a common scheme for dts/dtsi file naming? Is it more
enforced in one way or another for arm64 in a sense that I can take some
norm as an example?

[..]

Best regards,
Nicolas

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Nicolas Ferre