From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?=c5=81ukasz_Majewski?= Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 22:39:30 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Follow the Linux Kernel in building dtc as needed In-Reply-To: <20170924172845.GV30205@bill-the-cat> References: <1506263222-7080-1-git-send-email-trini@konsulko.com> <61a675e1-a3ae-c8f4-32fd-cf548c4047df@denx.de> <20170924172845.GV30205@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <7a2909a5-9d5e-3e7d-cdd0-a6e8468661d5@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Tom, > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 06:50:01PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: >> On 09/24/2017 04:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>> The following series has been applied. I am posting this for the record. >>> >>> For the record, I do not believe that using git submodules is a good approach >>> here. We have a small amount of code that we need here, and happily we can >>> leverage infrastructur e from the Linux Kernel. >>> >>> Speaking of, this is not the first time we have run into problems deviating >>> from the workflow of the kernel. The problems of having large number of >>> warnings, or not stemmed from not just leve raging all of the infrastructure >>> from the kernel. So related, yes, fixes for these warnings should come in, >>> and as always, if they're in the upstream kernel dts as well, they should be >>> fixed there. >> >> So any comments regarding bundling external tools were ignored, even >> though the discussion was not finished, great. >> >> Furthermore, there was zero time to review this series, it was just >> applied and posted afterward ? What sort of practice is this ? > > Yes. I put on my slightly-less-than-benevolent dictator hat today, and Linus style? :D Management > explained my reasoning. I do feel bad that you're rather unhappy with > the overall situation, but no, I believe this is the right answer. > > Now, there's some follow up further re-syncing with the kernel that > could be done (scripts/Makefile.lib/extrawarn can be further re-matched > up with the kernel now, but that would have made a larger delta than > "just migrate to providing the tool"). > But seriously, do we have some kind of road map for this? I mean if we have copied the dtc tool into u-boot temporarily (until distros catch up) or will it stay with us forever ? -- Best regards, Lukasz Majewski -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de