Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] scripts: dtc: Add fdtoverlay.c and fdtdump.c to DTC_SOURCE

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Jan 11 2021 - 23:46:39 EST


On 11-01-21, 16:13, Frank Rowand wrote:
> Hi Viresh,
>
> On 1/6/21 11:15 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > We will start building overlays for platforms soon in the kernel and
> > would need these tools going forward. Lets start fetching them.
> >
> > Note that a copy of fdtdump.c was already copied back in the year 2012,
> > but was never updated or built for some reason.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > V2: Separate out this change from Makefile one.
> >
> > This needs to be followed by invocation of the ./update-dtc-source.sh
> > script so the relevant files can be copied before the Makefile is
> > updated in the next patch.
>
> Just an FYI that Rob will do the ./update-dtc-source.sh step at the appropriate
> time, creating a commit to be submitted in his pull request to Linus.
>
> That way Rob will ensure that all of the updates from the parent project are
> updated in a careful manner.

Right, this is what I expected. I still wrote this in the patch
description to make sure others, who may want to try this stuff,
understand how this works.

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viresh