Re: [PATCH V11 3/5] kbuild: Allow .dtso format for overlay source files

From: Frank Rowand
Date: Wed Mar 24 2021 - 18:46:22 EST


Hi Viresh,

On 3/24/21 2:34 AM, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 3/16/21 12:42 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> On 16-03-21, 00:36, Frank Rowand wrote:
>>> I should have looked at patch 3/5 more carefully instead of counting on
>>> Masahiro to check it out and simply build testing.
>>>
>>> Patch 3/5 does not seem correct. I'll look over all the makefile related
>>> changes that have been accepted (if any) and patch 3/5 later today (Tuesday).
>>
>> What is already merged by Rob is what everyone reviewed and it wasn't
>> related to this .dtso/.dtbo discussion we are having. I will resend a
>> new patchset with the stuff left for merging (which will involve the
>> thing we are discussing here), so we can get a clear picture of it.
>>
>
> Instead of doing what I suggested in my 16-03-21, 00:36 email (only
> partly quoted above), I have made most of the changes to unittest.c
> and drivers/of/unitest/unittest-data/Makefile to allow the unittest
> .dts files to be .dtso source files and .dtbo FDT files, and tested.
> One final step remaining in my work is to actually rename the *.dts
> files to *.dtso.
>
> I hope to finish this later today (Wednesday) after getting some
> sleep.

I have submitted a patch that I _think_ removes the need for most
of patch 3/5, _other_ than the yaml rule, which I would assume is
still needed, though I did not examine it.

My patch is
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210324223713.1334666-1-frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx

Can you do a new patch with just the yaml rule (if Rob accepts my patch).

-Frank