Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757420Ab3GZAgd (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:36:33 -0400 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:58324 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756217Ab3GZAgb (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:36:31 -0400 Message-ID: <51F1C48C.7010408@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:36:28 -0700 From: Stephen Warren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Hutchings CC: Jason Cooper , Rob Herring , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Russell King - ARM Linux , Domenico Andreoli , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Dave P Martin , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] References: <20130725193135.GT23879@titan.lakedaemon.net> <20130725203228.GX23879@titan.lakedaemon.net> <20130725215315.GV7729@decadent.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130725215315.GV7729@decadent.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1372 Lines: 30 On 07/25/2013 02:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:32:28PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > [...] >> One of the things I've been trying to square up in my head is how to >> retain the history of the binding when moving to the new tree. My >> current idea was to clone the kernel tree, add one patch deleting >> everything but the bindings and dts files, and one more patch moving >> things where we want them (arch/{powerpc,arm}/boot/dts -> dts). >> >> Then, as needed, we could merge a kernel version tag and delete >> everything we don't need (code) in the merge commit. >> >> The downside of this is it would be messy, the upside is that we could >> closely track the kernel tree (until the bindings and dts are moved >> out), and retain the history of the bindings and dts files. > [...] > > It's *extremely* messy, but 'git filter-branch' might help to make a > clean tracking branch preserving history of just DT files. David > Woodhouse did something like that for the linux-firmware repo > initially. Ian Campbell is already working on exactly this solution: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/547 -- 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/