From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758011Ab3KHR77 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Nov 2013 12:59:59 -0500 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.11.231]:58300 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757919Ab3KHR75 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Nov 2013 12:59:57 -0500 Subject: Re: common location for devicetree files Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: <20131108165255.GA32668@titan.lakedaemon.net> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 11:59:56 -0600 Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org list" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <5957C301-9698-45B0-BFED-749DE79D0A74@codeaurora.org> References: <1438803E-C904-428B-B042-891978BC15DF@codeaurora.org> <20131108165255.GA32668@titan.lakedaemon.net> To: Jason Cooper X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Nov 8, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Jason Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 05:21:58PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: >> As we start having more sharing of device trees between architectures >> (arm & arm64, arm & powerpc, guessing maybe mips & arm) we need dts to >> live in location that >> >> I was wondering what people felt about doing: >> >> arch/dts// >> >> as a common location that could be shared. I'm up for other >> suggestions. > > What do we really need to do before the move? Should all arch dts files > be able to #include from any arch? What's the minimum churn needed to > accomplish that? Maybe just move the needed bits to arch/dts/include/ ? > > I'm not real keen on separating by vendor. For example, us mvebu folks > would probably miss useful/duplicated effort in another vendor's > subdirectory. Which was the whole reason for moving driver code out of > machine directories to begin with. Can you explain that further, what would you miss from other vendors. All the patches should still be going via devicetree ML. - k -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation