On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:12:15PM +0900, Grant Likely wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:29:20 +0000, Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Consumers of the Linux kernel's build products are beginning to hardcode > > the filenames of the dtbs generated. Since the dtb filenames are > > currently the dts filename s/dts/dtb/, this prevents the kernel > > community from renaming dts files as needed. > > > > Let's provide a consistent naming structure for consumers to script > > against. Or at least, as consistent as the dts properties themselves. > > > > With this patch, adding the '-L' option to the dtc commandline will > > cause dtc to create a symlink to the generated dtb, using the board > > compatible string as the filename, eg: > > > > globalscale,mirabox.dtb -> armada-370-mirabox.dtb > > This whole thread is just crazy. The filename is not an ABI. Anything > digging into the kernel build tree is a) wrong, and b) userspace tooling > consuming the kernel build products which is /not/ ABI and can be changed whew. I still think there is a need for an install target. The fact that our changing filenames might break things is an indicator of that. > If we want to have a tool or script for creating a well formed directory > full of .dtb files because it would be helpful to U-Boot or something > else, then that is fine. Make it part of the "make install" path. I'm currently reworking the patch(es) to implement 'make dtbs-install'. I'll hopefully have them ready this weekend or sooner. I'm taking the same tack as install.sh (/sbin/installdtbs takes precedence). thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
