Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] arm64: dts: Add symlinks for cros-ec-keyboard and cros-ec-sbs

From: Heiko Stuebner
Date: Mon Feb 27 2017 - 13:21:49 EST


Hi Olof,

Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 15:47:31 CET schrieb Olof Johansson:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > We'd like to be able to use the cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi and
> > cros-ec-sbs.dtsi snippets for arm64 devices. Currently those files live
> > in the arm/boot/dts directory.
> >
> > Let's follow the convention set by commit 8ee57b8182c4 ("ARM64: dts:
> > vexpress: Use a symlink to vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm") and use
> > a symlink. Note that in this case we put the files in a new
> > "include/common" directory since these snippets may need to be
> > referenced by dts files in many different subdirectories.
>
> I'd rather have something like this:
>
> https://marc.info/?m=147547436324674&w=2
>
> Instead of having everybody move things over. I.e. make it easy to
> refer to the arm version from arm64 instead of creating a "common"
> layer inbetween.

just so it gets noticed, I've done and tested [0], which hopefully should
implement your suggestions above.

If that looks ok, how do you want that picked up? Should I just include
them in my regular rockchip branches or do you to pick them into some
immutable branch, if other surprise-users turn up in time for 4.12?


Thanks
Heiko


[0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-rockchip/2017-February/014226.html