Re: [PATCH 0/6] Rename DTB overlay source files

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Oct 24 2022 - 09:28:29 EST


Hi Andrew,

On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 8:24 PM Andrew Davis <afd@xxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a series based on my patch here[0]. As suggested by Rob
> I've resurrected Frank's patch and appended it to mine as a series.
>
> First patch here is my original patch, 3rd is Frank's patch but with
> the unittest changes pulled out into the 2nd patch. That was re-worked
> moving the source building macro into scripts/Makefile.lib.
>
> Patches 4, 5, and 6 are an attempt at renaming all the existing DTB
> overlays. Split out by platform so they could be taken by platform
> maintainers or if easier ACK'd here and taken all together.
>
> This should cover all the DTB overlays so we can remove the old .dts
> rule for overlays and make .dtso the only supported way, let me know
> if we want that this cycle and I can post that too.

Thanks a lot for picking this up!

Everything builds still fine, and the OF unit tests still run fine, so
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

BTW, you missed the Smarthome-Wolf Pi433 overlay[1] and its
documentation[2] under drivers/staging/, but perhaps that was
intentional, as it is not tied into the build system?

[1] drivers/staging/pi433/Documentation/devicetree/pi433-overlay.dts
[2] drivers/staging/pi433/Documentation/devicetree/pi433.txt

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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