Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] arm64: dts: Add symlinks for cros-ec-keyboard and cros-ec-sbs

[Brian Norris]

In case this thread is easier to notice...

Olof,

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:20:48PM +0100, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 15:47:31 CET schrieb Olof Johansson:
> > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I'd rather have something like this:
> > 
> > https://marc.info/?m=147547436324674&w=2
> > 
> > Instead of having everybody move things over. I.e. make it easy to
> > refer to the arm version from arm64 instead of creating a "common"
> > layer inbetween.
> 
> just so it gets noticed, I've done and tested [0], which hopefully should
> implement your suggestions above.
> 
> If that looks ok, how do you want that picked up? Should I just include
> them in my regular rockchip branches or do you to pick them into some
> immutable branch, if other surprise-users turn up in time for 4.12?

Ping? I suppose we can prevent users in 4.12 by never merging this :)

Brian

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> [0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-rockchip/2017-February/014226.html
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