Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756435Ab2K1Xe2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:34:28 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:50274 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755863Ab2K1Xe0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:34:26 -0500 Message-ID: <1354145291.2179.147.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 1/7] kbuild: centralize .dts->.dtb rule From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Stephen Warren Cc: Paul Mackerras , Michal Marek , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Kumar Gala Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:28:11 +1100 In-Reply-To: <50B65903.1050400@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1354058956-7199-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <50B65903.1050400@wwwdotorg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 28 On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 11:33 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > Following this patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/27/555), I posted a > series of patches to convert almost all architectures to using the > centralized rule. The one architecture I didn't convert was PowerPC. > > I didn't convert it because arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile contains a large > number of rules (to generate *Image.% where % is a board name) that > depend on %.dtb, which is expected to be in arch/powerpc/boot rather > than arch/powerpc/boot/dts. Now, I guess it's possible to convert them > all to expect the .dtb files to be in dts/ and also have > arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile call make in boot/dts/ to make each required > .dtb file. However, the patch would be a bit larger than all the other > architecture patches. Do you want me to do that conversion, or would you > rather I leave PowerPC alone? Thanks for any feedback. Kumar, any objection to moving the dtb's to arch/powerpc/boot/dtb/ ? Other than breaking a script or two out there ... Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/