Re: [PATCH 1/1] of: unittest: rename overlay source files from .dts to .dtso

Rob Herring
2022-04-27T21:15:03Z

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:31 PM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 3:25 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 3:10 AM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:23 AM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Patient Geert has pinged again.
> > >
> > > If it's not a patch to be reviewed, then I'm not going to see it most
> > > likely. I don't read the DT list regularly...
> >
> > Fair enough...
> >
> > > > If I remember correctly you guys were not thrilled with this idea, but
> > > > also did not seem strongly against it. Are you willing to go along
> > > > with .dtso for overlay source files? If so, I will revive this patch
> > > > series.
> > > >
> > > > David, if you are against supporting .dtso in the dtc compiler then
> > > > the kernel can still support it through make rules.
> > >
> > > I'm not really interested in diverging from dtc. I'd suggest moving
> > > the discussion to dtc list and/or devicetree-spec if you want to get
> > > more attention on this.
> >
> > What needs to be supported in the dtc compiler?
> > The fallback passed to guess_input_format() is "dts".
> > So this has been working out-of-the-box since forever?
>
> Ah, okay.
>
> > > Also, keep in mind that extensions also affect MIME types which
> > > someone was also asking about recently.
> >
> > You mean "MIME type of Devicetree Blobs and Sources"[1]?
> > According to [2](2022-01-13), none of that has happened.
>
> This is what I was thinking of:
>
> https://github.com/devicetree-org/devicetree-specification/issues/46
>
> In any case, given everyone is ambivalent, send me an updated patch
> and I'll apply it.

Ping! Anyone still want this?

What I don't want to see is a mixture of .dts and .dtso. And now I'm
reviewing RPi overlay patches[1] with .dts.

Rob

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427185243.173594-3-detlev.casanova@collabora.com