From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:11:22 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt: fix out of tree builds with DT support In-Reply-To: <20120419183816.28A88202B35@gemini.denx.de> References: <1334838967-23089-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de> <20120419182750.04177202B35@gemini.denx.de> <20120419183816.28A88202B35@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4F907F7A.2040600@wwwdotorg.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 04/19/2012 12:38 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Simon Glass, > > In message you wrote: >> >> Fair enough. I hope that doesn't preclude us from using new features >> for too long. > > Thanks. > > Most distributions appear to pick up such changes not too fast, so we > may run into issues here and there. I think we should decide this on > a case by case base - here it was a trivial change to the existing > code that fixed the problem. The kernel deals with this by packaging a copy of dtc (the source) as part of the kernel source tree. Then, it can upgrade to new features as soon as they're needed without any distro dependency.