Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: Add symlinks for cros-ec-keyboard and cros-ec-sbs

From: Brian Norris
Date: Mon Nov 28 2016 - 18:51:50 EST


Hi Olof, Arnd,

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 03:02:10PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> We'd like to be able to use the cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi and
> cros-ec-sbs.dtsi snippets for arm64 devices. Currently those files live
> in the arm/boot/dts directory.
>
> Let's follow the convention set by commit 8ee57b8182c4 ("ARM64: dts:
> vexpress: Use a symlink to vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm") and use
> a symlink. Note that in this case we put the files in a new
> "include/common" directory since these snippets may need to be
> referenced by dts files in many different subdirectories.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Note that, as of right now, there are no users of this. However, given
> development happening it is almost 100% certain that users will arrive
> soon. If we need to wait for the first user before landing this we can
> leave this on the back burner. If it's OK to have no users (yet), let's
> land.

This may not fit your definition of "soon", but I'm looking to start
using these files in arch/arm64/. I'll probably carry along this patch
and resend when I'm ready, but it'd be just as well if you'd merge it
now (or express a preference for a different directory structure).

> arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi | 1 +
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-sbs.dtsi | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> create mode 120000 arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi
> create mode 120000 arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-sbs.dtsi
>
> \ No newline at end of file
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi
> new file mode 120000
> index 000000000000..1c1889f0a791
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +../../../../../arm/boot/dts/cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi
> \ No newline at end of file
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-sbs.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-sbs.dtsi
> new file mode 120000
> index 000000000000..3d7ae9c88bcd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/common/cros-ec-sbs.dtsi
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +../../../../../arm/boot/dts/cros-ec-sbs.dtsi

FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>