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From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Subject: Re: Merge dtc
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:49:54 -0500
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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On Tue Oct 16 15:02:17 EST 2007, David Gibson wrote:

> This very large patch incorporates a copy of dtc into the kernel
> source, in arch/powerpc/boot/dtc-src.  This means that dtc is no
> longer an external dependency to build kernels with configurations
> which need a dtb file.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>
> Too big for the list, full patch at
> http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/home/merge-dtc.patch+

So split it up.   The obvious one is "here is the unique content, then 
copy these files from dtc git" would have been better.

I finally went and looked at the url.  The Kbuild integration is wrong. 
  It should build dtc in dtc-src and run the binary from there, and the 
rules should be in a Kconfig as a normal host-target in that directory. 
   (I don't have a problem with that Kbuild including Makefie.dtc).

things like the dependancy on scripts_basic in the top level Makefile.

milton