[Buildroot] [PATCH RFC next] package/linux: drop useless intermediate DTS booleans

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Feb 26 17:57:07 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:47:21 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Just use whatever the user specified in the list. An empty list means no
> DTS was specified.
> 
> No need to add legacy option, as the behaviour does not change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Simon van der Veldt <simon.vanderveldt at gmail.com>
> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> 
> ---
> This is an RFC patch, totally untested, as an attempt to fix the fallout
> of allowing both in-tree and out-of-tree DTS files at the same time.
> It's here just to kickstart a discussion, especially about the help
> texts... ;-)

Yes, I agree with this direction. When I saw the patch allowing to
generate both in-tree and out of tree DTS, I also thought "but why do
we keep those booleans". Next time I should not only "think" but also
write it in an e-mail as a reply to the patch :-)

Thomas
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