On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > arch/arm/boot/dts/<vendor>/
>> >
>> > Is this something we should do for the MIPS and update the other architectures
>> > to follow that scheme?
>>
>> I recall reading that as well and that it would be adopted for ARM64,
>> but that hasn't seemed to have happened. Perhaps Olof (CC'ed) will no
>> more.
>
> Yeah, I highly recommend having a directory per vendor. We didn't on ARM,
> and the amount of files in that directory is becoming pretty
> insane. Moving to a subdirectory structure later gets messy which is
> why we've been holding off on it.
It would mean we can change our scripts to operate on "interesting"
DTS files from
do-something-with $(git grep -l $vendor, -- arch/arm/boot/dts)
to
do-something-with arch/arm/boot/dts/$vendor/*
which is easier to type...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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