From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751153AbaHWN5N (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:57:13 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:54644 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750780AbaHWN5L (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:57:11 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Move device-tree files to a common location Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:56:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.8.0-35-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Andrew Bresticker , Florian Fainelli , Kumar Gala , Ralf Baechle , David Daney , Rob Herring , "Linux-MIPS" , Qais Yousef , Ian Campbell , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Pawel Moll , John Crispin , Mark Rutland , Jayachandran C , Paul Burton , James Hogan , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" References: <1408651466-8334-1-git-send-email-abrestic@chromium.org> <20140823063113.GC23715@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20140823063113.GC23715@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201408231556.42571.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:amijnnnDsKoWdWE8F2RgkY55G2QwEm/B5S9drzsErmJ bWRyYLixFA9gAxfuFgiB8wnPNWT0DwainAq1vQMaZFEIACtq/Z Z3xPJw1E9yXhpzjaAfFmoBsnt/JR9UbSGsE3woqiGiBcmm4IGI Nl8YtviZtdzzYxZMClB3W//HV3DqOgm8YM9BpSmeXYDeXpbLSr 2RqmDki9v/JadbZJibzkh1tmfc/aZBv40Q7gLBcxSvN4X7w43a yc5DntfLl47G9W4wtJbwrIUp6Vtp9vZoR/cUcaR3bq9hQDM5dp AbepNbB/GxuxZ/h3vM5TX9IoWYykyia4MCd2U0+PdIF61e7v4y Bx7cN+k7MqMnyFT7bq9k= X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 23 August 2014, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:10:23PM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 21, 2014 3:05 PM, "Andrew Bresticker" wrote: > > > > > > > > To be consistent with other architectures and to avoid unnecessary > > > > makefile duplication, move all MIPS device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts > > > > and build them with a common makefile. > > > > > > I recall reading that the ARM organization for DTS files was a bit unfortunate > > > and should have been something like: > > > > > > arch/arm/boot/dts// > > > > > > Is this something we should do for the MIPS and update the other architectures > > > to follow that scheme? > > > > I recall reading that as well and that it would be adopted for ARM64, > > but that hasn't seemed to have happened. Perhaps Olof (CC'ed) will no > > more. > > Yeah, I highly recommend having a directory per vendor. We didn't on ARM, > and the amount of files in that directory is becoming pretty > insane. Moving to a subdirectory structure later gets messy which is > why we've been holding off on it. Another argument is that we plan to actually move all the dts files out of the kernel into a separate project in the future. We really don't want to have the churn of moving all the files now when they get deleted in one of the next merge windows. I don't know if we talked about whether that move should be done for all architectures at the same time. If that is the plan, I think it would be best to not move the MIPS files at all but also wait until they can get removed from the kernel tree. Arnd