Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Move device-tree files to a common location

Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-23T13:56:42Z

On Saturday 23 August 2014, Olof Johansson wrote:
> 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.

Another argument is that we plan to actually move all the dts files out of
the kernel into a separate project in the future. We really don't want to
have the churn of moving all the files now when they get deleted in one
of the next merge windows.

I don't know if we talked about whether that move should be done for
all architectures at the same time. If that is the plan, I think it
would be best to not move the MIPS files at all but also wait until
they can get removed from the kernel tree.

Arnd