[PATCH v2 5/8] doc: devicetree: Updates for devicetree-rebasing subtree

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Dec 22 14:56:39 CET 2023


On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:18:05PM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 at 18:05, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 11:42:05AM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> >
> > > Encourage SoC/board maintainers to migrate to using devicetree-rebasing
> > > subtree and maintain a regular sync with Linux kernel devicetree files
> > > and bindings.
> > >
> > > Along with that add documentation regarding how to run DT bindings
> > > schema checks.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg at linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  doc/develop/devicetree/control.rst | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > >  1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> > [snip]
> > > @@ -81,18 +94,21 @@ Failing that, you could write one from scratch yourself!
> > >  Configuration
> > >  -------------
> > >
> > > -Use::
> > > +Traditionally, U-Boot placed copies of devicetree source files from Linux
> > > +kernel into `arch/<arch>/dts/<name>.dts` which can be selected via::
> > >
> > > -   #define CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE        "<name>"
> > > +    #define CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE       "<name>"
> >
> > Oh, oof. This never got updated for Kconfig rather than config.h. Can
> > you please include re-wording this to be setting <name> when prompted
> > for DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE by Kconfig? And the rest of the text you're
> > updating as well to match, thanks.
> >
> 
> Sure but how about changing it to say via board defconfig as
> CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="<name>", since AFAIK most people use
> defconfig to configure U-Boot.

Well, do kernel docs tell people to modify defconfigs, or to use the
config menu/etc?

-- 
Tom
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