From: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
Anmar Oueja <anmar.oueja@linaro.org>,
Bill Mills <bill.mills@linaro.org>,
"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] of: unittest: rename overlay source files from .dts to .dtso
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 11:23:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e175ace6-36a0-bfcc-c8e4-b06553064860@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YK70Xsl1oXeEQpWZ@yekko>
On 5/26/21 8:22 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:21:48PM -0500, Frank Rowand wrote:
>> On 5/26/21 1:11 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>> On 22-04-21, 13:54, Frank Rowand wrote:
>>>> On 4/22/21 3:44 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>>> Hi Frank, Rob,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 9:23 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/27/21 12:40 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 05:37:13PM -0500, frowand.list@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Add Makefile rule to build .dtbo.o assembly file from overlay .dtso
>>>>>>>> source file.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rename unittest .dts overlay source files to use .dtso suffix.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm pretty lukewarm on .dtso...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was originally also, but I'm warming up to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the status of this?
>>>>
>>>> I was planning to resend on top of the upcoming -rc1.
>>>
>>> Ping.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the prod...
>>
>> The .dtso convention was added to the dtc compiler, then a patch was
>> accepted to revert one mention of .dtso ,though there still remains
>> two location where .dtbo is still recognized (guess_type_by_name() in
>> dtc and the help text of the fdtoverlay program).
>>
>> It seems that the general .dtso and .dtbo were not popular, so I'm
>> going to drop this patch instead of continuing to try to get it
>> accepted.
>
> AFAICT .dtbo is moderately well established, and I think it's a good
> convention, since it matters whether a blob is an overlay or base
> tree, and it's not trivial to tell which is which.
>
> .dtso is much more recent, and I think there's much less value to it.
>
Thanks for the correction, I misunderstood your thoughts.
-Frank
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-27 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-24 22:37 [PATCH 1/1] of: unittest: rename overlay source files from .dts to .dtso frowand.list
2021-03-25 4:41 ` [PATCH V4] kbuild: Add rule to build .dt.yaml files for overlays Viresh Kumar
2021-03-27 17:40 ` [PATCH 1/1] of: unittest: rename overlay source files from .dts to .dtso Rob Herring
2021-03-29 19:23 ` Frank Rowand
2021-04-22 8:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-22 18:54 ` Frank Rowand
2021-05-26 6:11 ` Viresh Kumar
2021-05-26 21:21 ` Frank Rowand
2021-05-27 1:22 ` David Gibson
2021-05-27 7:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-05-28 3:45 ` David Gibson
2021-05-29 10:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-22 9:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-08-24 9:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-06 9:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-06 17:23 ` Frank Rowand
2022-01-14 2:10 ` Rob Herring
2022-01-14 9:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-18 9:54 ` David Gibson
2022-01-26 19:31 ` Rob Herring
2022-04-27 21:14 ` Rob Herring
2022-04-28 6:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-04-28 13:05 ` Rob Herring
2022-04-28 18:16 ` Frank Rowand
2021-05-27 16:23 ` Frank Rowand [this message]
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