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Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: vexpress: Use a symlink to vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm

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On Monday 12 October 2015 16:37:50 Mark Rutland wrote:
> 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/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>


> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> 

Applied to next/dt, thanks!

	Arnd
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Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: vexpress: Use a symlink to  vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2015-10-12 17:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: vexpress: Use a symlink to  vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-10-14 04:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: vexpress: Use a symlink to vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-10-14 18:00 +0200

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