Re: [PATCH V5 3/5] scripts: dtc: Remove the unused fdtdump.c file

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:43 AM David Gibson
<david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:47:57AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > On 21-01-21, 11:44, David Gibson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:36:45PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > > This was copied from external DTC repository long back and isn't used
> > > > anymore. Over that the dtc tool can be used to generate the dts source
> > > > back from the dtb. Remove the unused fdtdump.c file.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Doesn't this make updating the kernel dtc from upstream needlessly
> > > more difficult?
> >
> > Hmm, I am not sure I understand the concern well. The kernel keeps a
> > list of files[1] it needs to automatically copy (using a script) from
> > the upstream dtc repo and fdtdump.c was never part of that. Keeping it
> > there isn't going to make any difficulty I believe.
>
> Hm, ok.  Seems a bit clunky compared to embedding the whole directory,
> but whatever.

Either way, it's a list of what to keep or what to omit as we don't
want build files nor tests. If we were to take the whole thing, then
we should do a submodule, but so far no one wants submodules in the
kernel tree. There is a git subtree feature now that could do the same
thing as the script. But the script is good enough only needing small
tweaks occasionally, and anything else is work.

Rob