Re: [PATCH 0/4] ARM: Move dts files to vendor sub-directories

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Tue May 09 2023 - 02:38:12 EST


* Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> [230505 22:47]:
> Tony,
>
> On 22:29-20230504, Rob Herring wrote:
> > As discussed and attempted several times before[1][2], the flat arm32
> > directory of 1553 platforms has grown unwieldy. Past attempts stalled
> > out due to plans to move .dts files out of the kernel tree. Doing that
> > is no longer planned (any time soon at least), so let's go ahead and
> > group .dts files by vendors. This move aligns arm with arm64 .dts file
> > structure.
> [...]
>
> Wondering if it makes to have any sense of grouping per TI SoC arch? at
> least will be clear as to what is going on?
>
> ti/omap2 or ti/omap ?
>
> > 'am3' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'am4' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'am5' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'dra' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'keystone' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/keystone ?
> > 'omap' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'compulab' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'logicpd' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'elpida' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'motorola' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'twl' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/omap ?
> > 'da' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/davinci ?
> > 'dm' : 'ti',
> ^^ group as ti/davinci ?
>
> For me at least, this cleanly seperates things up.

No objections from me to adding TI subdirectories. Rob, any issues with this?

Regards,

Tony