From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <20071031044953.GG7772@localhost.localdomain> References: <20071031032401.GD7772@localhost.localdomain> <20071031044953.GG7772@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9188C941-1A81-4F88-B9AE-ACA71B41B093@kernel.crashing.org> From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [0/2] Embed a copy of dtc in the kernel source Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:54:51 -0500 To: David Gibson Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:49 PM, David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:37:15PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> >> On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:24 PM, David Gibson wrote: >> >>> These two patches are a respin of my previous patch to merge a >>> copy of >>> dtc into the kernel tree, so that kernel builds no longer depend >>> on an >>> externally installed copy of dtc. >>> >>> This respin embeds a newer revision of dtc, and incorporates Sam >>> Ravnborg's preferred approach to Makefile integration. Also, >>> since so >>> many people whinged about it last time, I've split the patch into >>> two >>> parts, the first is the too-large-for-the-list patch just verbatim >>> adding files and the second has the changes to existing kernel files >>> to build and use the embedded code. >> >> What about doing part of this via git-submodule? > > Uh.. where do I find out what that does? My version of git (Ubuntu > gutsy) doesn't seem to know anything about it... Take a look at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html - k