[RFC PATCH 0/1] Categorize ARM dts directory

Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-03-29T09:04:11Z

Hi Tony,

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:03 AM Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> * Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com> [220328 08:53]:
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 at 09:09, Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Yeah.. And ideally this would be done in smaller steps as these will
> conflict with all the other pending patches.
>
> For example, I have a pile of pending omap clock clean-up dts patches
> posted and tested waiting for v5.19-rc1 to apply. I'd rather not start
> redoing or fixing up the patches with sed :)

Git merge/rebase/cherry-pick should handle renames fine?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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