Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] arm64: dts: Add symlinks for cros-ec-keyboard and cros-ec-sbs

[Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
> Hi Olof,
>
> Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 15:47:31 CET schrieb Olof Johansson:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:
>> > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
>> >
>> > We'd like to be able to use the cros-ec-keyboard.dtsi and
>> > cros-ec-sbs.dtsi snippets for arm64 devices.  Currently those files live
>> > in the arm/boot/dts directory.
>> >
>> > Let's follow the convention set by commit 8ee57b8182c4 ("ARM64: dts:
>> > vexpress: Use a symlink to vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm") and use
>> > a symlink.  Note that in this case we put the files in a new
>> > "include/common" directory since these snippets may need to be
>> > referenced by dts files in many different subdirectories.
>>
>> I'd rather have something like this:
>>
>> https://marc.info/?m=147547436324674&w=2
>>
>> Instead of having everybody move things over. I.e. make it easy to
>> refer to the arm version from arm64 instead of creating a "common"
>> layer inbetween.
>
> just so it gets noticed, I've done and tested [0], which hopefully should
> implement your suggestions above.
>
> If that looks ok, how do you want that picked up? Should I just include
> them in my regular rockchip branches or do you to pick them into some
> immutable branch, if other surprise-users turn up in time for 4.12?

Sigh. I completely dropped the ball on this, and I didn't see it
included in any of your pull requests for 4.12 since I never actually
acked that approach.

I've applied the patches onto a dt/include-paths stable branch, but
we're late for merging dependent code on top of it for 4.12.


-Olof