On Saturday 23 August 2014, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:10:23PM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 21, 2014 3:05 PM, "Andrew Bresticker" <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > To be consistent with other architectures and to avoid unnecessary > > > > makefile duplication, move all MIPS device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts > > > > and build them with a common makefile. > > > > > > I recall reading that the ARM organization for DTS files was a bit unfortunate > > > and should have been something like: > > > > > > 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. Another argument is that we plan to actually move all the dts files out of the kernel into a separate project in the future. We really don't want to have the churn of moving all the files now when they get deleted in one of the next merge windows. I don't know if we talked about whether that move should be done for all architectures at the same time. If that is the plan, I think it would be best to not move the MIPS files at all but also wait until they can get removed from the kernel tree. Arnd
