Re: [PATCH 1/1] of: unittest: rename overlay source files from .dts to .dtso

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Jan 26 2022 - 14:32:05 EST


On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 3:25 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 3:10 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:23 AM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Patient Geert has pinged again.
> >
> > If it's not a patch to be reviewed, then I'm not going to see it most
> > likely. I don't read the DT list regularly...
>
> Fair enough...
>
> > > If I remember correctly you guys were not thrilled with this idea, but
> > > also did not seem strongly against it. Are you willing to go along
> > > with .dtso for overlay source files? If so, I will revive this patch
> > > series.
> > >
> > > David, if you are against supporting .dtso in the dtc compiler then
> > > the kernel can still support it through make rules.
> >
> > I'm not really interested in diverging from dtc. I'd suggest moving
> > the discussion to dtc list and/or devicetree-spec if you want to get
> > more attention on this.
>
> What needs to be supported in the dtc compiler?
> The fallback passed to guess_input_format() is "dts".
> So this has been working out-of-the-box since forever?

Ah, okay.

> > Also, keep in mind that extensions also affect MIME types which
> > someone was also asking about recently.
>
> You mean "MIME type of Devicetree Blobs and Sources"[1]?
> According to [2](2022-01-13), none of that has happened.

This is what I was thinking of:

https://github.com/devicetree-org/devicetree-specification/issues/46

In any case, given everyone is ambivalent, send me an updated patch
and I'll apply it.

Rob