Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Don't assume dts files live in arch/*/boot/dts

[Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>]

Hi Michal,

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:50:49AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 05/08/2013 04:59 AM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> > In commit b40b25ff (kbuild: always run gcc -E on *.dts, remove cmd_dtc_cpp),
> > dts building was changed to always use the C preprocessor. This meant
> > that the .dts file passed to dtc is not the original, but the
> > preprocessed one.
> > 
> > When compiling with a separate build directory (i.e., with O=), this
> > preprocessed file will not live in the same directory as the original.
> > When the .dts file includes .dtsi files, dtc will look for them in the
> > build directory, not in the source directory and compilation will fail.
> > 
> > The commit referenced above tried to fix this by passing arch/*/boot/dts
> > as an include path to dtc. However, for mips, the .dts files are not in
> > this directory, so dts compilation on mips breaks for some targets.
> > 
> > Instead of hardcoding this particular include path, this commit just
> > uses the directory of the .dts file that is being compiled, which
> > effectively restores the previous behaviour wrt includes. For most .dts
> > files, this path is just the same as the previous hardcoded
> > arch/*/boot/dts path.
> > 
> > This was tested on a mips (rt3052) and an arm (bcm2835) target.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>

Did this patch look ok to you? If so, could you pick it up and send it
over to Linus for 3.10 (or should I send it directly)?

Gr.

Matthijs