Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm: dts: am335x-boneblack: Extract common config

[Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>]

On 12/07/21 9:53 pm, Paul Barker wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:27:55 +0000
> Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:31:56AM +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:05:46 +0100
>>> Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:03 AM Paul Barker
>>>> <paul.barker@sancloud.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Configuration which is shared between the BeagleBone Black and
>>>>> derivative boards like the Sancloud BeagleBone Enhanced (BBE) is
>>>>> moved to a common dtsi file to prevent duplication.  
>>>>
>>>> Are these being sent upstream to the linux kernel?
>>>
>>> The upstream kernel already has am335x-boneblack-common.dtsi and
>>> am335x-sancloud-bbe.dts files, since 2016 and 2018 respectively. As
>>> these files fell out of sync over 4 years ago I've assumed there is no
>>> need to keep them in sync. We could try to resync things but that would
>>> lead to an unnecessary risk of breakage, I don't have every BeagleBone
>>> Black derivative board on hand to fully test such a resync.
>>
>> Adding in Lokesh.  It would be really good to get as many of these files
>> back in sync again as possible and then keep them in sync periodically.
>> As I don't think there's been any breaking fixes in the dts files again,
>> there shouldn't be any problems.
>>
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> As there's been no reply from Lokesh I'd like to move forward with
> these updates if we can. I'm happy to resync the SanCloud dts files
> plus what we include, I think that will also involve copying over at
> least one more dt-bindings header as well.
> 
> I'll send an updated series shortly.

Sorry for the delayed response as I was out of office last week.

yes, please sync the entire dts.

Thanks and regards,
Lokesh

> 
> Thanks,
>