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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Move device-tree files to a common location
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:31:13 -0700
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:10:23PM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 21, 2014 3:05 PM, "Andrew Bresticker" <abrestic@chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > To be consistent with other architectures and to avoid unnecessary
> > > makefile duplication, move all MIPS device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts
> > > and build them with a common makefile.
> >
> > I recall reading that the ARM organization for DTS files was a bit unfortunate
> > and should have been something like:
> >
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/<vendor>/
> >
> > Is this something we should do for the MIPS and update the other architectures
> > to follow that scheme?
> 
> I recall reading that as well and that it would be adopted for ARM64,
> but that hasn't seemed to have happened.  Perhaps Olof (CC'ed) will no
> more.

Yeah, I highly recommend having a directory per vendor. We didn't on ARM,
and the amount of files in that directory is becoming pretty
insane. Moving to a subdirectory structure later gets messy which is
why we've been holding off on it.


-Olof