On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:53:52PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Commit 9ccd608070b6 "arm64: dts: add device tree for ARM SMM-A53x2 on > LogicTile Express 20MG" added a new dts file to arch/arm64 which > included "../../../../arm/boot/dts/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi", i.e. a > .dtsi supplied by arch/arm. > > Unfortunately this causes some issues for the split device tree > repository[0], since things get moved around there. In that context > the new .dts ends up at src/arm64/arm/vexpress-v2f-1xv7-ca53x2.dts > while the include is at src/arm/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi. > > The sharing of the .dtsi is legitimate since the baseboard is the same > for various vexpress systems whatever processor they use. > > Previously I attempted to resolve this by creating a shared location > for such things but we have been unable to come to a consensus on > where that should be. > > Instead this patch simply replaces the use of ../../ in the dts > /include/ with a symlink in arch/arm64/boot/dts/arm pointing to the > file arch/arm/boot/dts. > > Since the split device tree repo will shortly be required to flatten > symlinks for other reasons this will cause the dtsi file to appear in > both src/arm and src/arm64 in the split repo, which is an improvement > on not building for arm64 now. > > [0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/devicetree/devicetree-rebasing.git/ I don't have any objections but these patches usually go in via the arm-soc tree. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
