[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Follow the Linux Kernel in building dtc as needed

Łukasz Majewski
2017-09-24T20:39:30Z

Hi Tom,

> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 06:50:01PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 09/24/2017 04:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> The following series has been applied. I am posting this for the record.
>>>
>>> For the record, I do not believe that using git submodules is a good approach
>>> here. We have a small amount of code that we need here, and happily we can
>>> leverage infrastructur e from the Linux Kernel.
>>>
>>> Speaking of, this is not the first time we have run into problems deviating
>>> from the workflow of the kernel. The problems of having large number of
>>> warnings, or not stemmed from not just leve raging all of the infrastructure
>>> from the kernel. So related, yes, fixes for these warnings should come in,
>>> and as always, if they're in the upstream kernel dts as well, they should be
>>> fixed there.
>>
>> So any comments regarding bundling external tools were ignored, even
>> though the discussion was not finished, great.
>>
>> Furthermore, there was zero time to review this series, it was just
>> applied and posted afterward ? What sort of practice is this ?
>
> Yes. I put on my slightly-less-than-benevolent dictator hat today, and

Linus style? :D Management

> explained my reasoning. I do feel bad that you're rather unhappy with
> the overall situation, but no, I believe this is the right answer.
>
> Now, there's some follow up further re-syncing with the kernel that
> could be done (scripts/Makefile.lib/extrawarn can be further re-matched
> up with the kernel now, but that would have made a larger delta than
> "just migrate to providing the tool").
>

But seriously, do we have some kind of road map for this?

I mean if we have copied the dtc tool into u-boot temporarily (until
distros catch up) or will it stay with us forever ?

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Lukasz Majewski

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