From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Rutland Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: explicitly mark skeleton.dtsi as deprecated Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:46:11 +0100 Message-ID: <20160901124611.GA5049@leverpostej> References: <1472730037-4972-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1472730037-4972-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org Cc: devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Rob Herring , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:40:37PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > As noted in commit 3ebee5a2e141496b ("arm64: dts: kill skeleton.dtsi"), > there are a number of problems with skeleton.dtsi, and it would be > prefereable to remove it entirely. As there are a large number of > existing users, fixing these up will take a while. > > This patch adds a note to arm's skeleton.dtsi noting that this is the > case, to make this more obvious and hopefully minimize new uptake of > skeleton.dtsi in the mean time. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland > Cc: Rob Herring This should have been linaro.org. not sure how I managed that. Mark. > Cc: Arnd Bergmann > Cc: Olof Johansson > --- > arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi > index b41d241..28b81d6 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi > @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ > /* > + * This file is deprecated, and will be removed once existing users have been > + * updated. New dts{,i} files should *not* include skeleton.dtsi, and should > + * instead explicitly provide the below nodes only as required. > + * > * Skeleton device tree; the bare minimum needed to boot; just include and > * add a compatible value. The bootloader will typically populate the memory > * node. > -- > 1.9.1 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html