On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 13:05 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > Given that dts files are run through the C preprocessor before being > > fed to dtc, the build script could use the '-include' flag to force- > > include a fragment containing generated build info without any need to > > modify existing dts files. > > Uh... maybe. -include will essentially prepend the forced file, which > is a bit awkward for our purposes. It means that the prepended file > would need the /dts-v1/ tag, and we couldn't have it in the main files > which would be a bit confusing. I think it would also cause problems > with any /memreserve/ tags and means that the main tree could in > theory overwrite the build information which we don't necessarily > want. Oh. I thought I had seen a proposal or patch fly by here recently that allowed multiple /dts-v1/ tags without any warnings, specifically to wish away any problems with what order things might get included. If that was just some kind of fever-dream, then I guess: nevermind. :) -- Ian
