Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Move device-tree files to a common location

[Jonas Gorski]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > arch/arm/boot/dts/<vendor>/
>>> >
>>> > Is this something we should do for the MIPS and update the other architectures
>>> > to follow that scheme?
>>>
>>> I recall reading that as well and that it would be adopted for ARM64,
>>> but that hasn't seemed to have happened.  Perhaps Olof (CC'ed) will no
>>> more.
>>
>> Yeah, I highly recommend having a directory per vendor. We didn't on ARM,
>> and the amount of files in that directory is becoming pretty
>> insane. Moving to a subdirectory structure later gets messy which is
>> why we've been holding off on it.
>
> It would mean we can change our scripts to operate on "interesting"
> DTS files from
>
>      do-something-with $(git grep -l $vendor, -- arch/arm/boot/dts)
>
> to
>
>     do-something-with arch/arm/boot/dts/$vendor/*
>
> which is easier to type...

Btw, do you mean chip-vendor or device-vendor with vendor?
Device-vendor could get a bit messy on the source part as the router
manufacturers tend to switch them quite often. E.g. d-link used arm,
mips and ubi32 chips from marvell, ubicom, broadcom, atheros, realtek
and ralink for their dir-615 router, happily switching back and forth.
There are 14 known different hardware revisions of it where the chip
differed from the previous one.



Jonas
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