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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [0/2] Embed a copy of dtc in the kernel source
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:37:15 -0500
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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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?

- k