[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] Move and rename common headers from under board/davinci

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Oct 22 09:56:01 CEST 2010


Dear Sughosh Ganu,

In message <20101022072634.GA8597 at Hardy> you wrote:
>
> > > This patch is needed for adding board support for the hawkboard which
> > > uses nand_spl based boot mechanism.
> > 
> > Why would that be the case?
> 
>   The board file is symlinked under the nand_spl/board directory and
>   we cannot do relative path based file inclusion.

Which points out where the actual problem comes from: relative path
based file inclusion is a Bad Thing and should be avoided.

> > If these headers are indeed common to all davinci boards, they should
> > probably be moved to arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/davinci/
> 
>   Ok. In that case, i guess i can keep them in the same place. Would
>   rename them as davinci_misc.h and da8xx_common.h, and add the
>   include path in my board's config.mk. Is this fine.

I don't understand what you man by "keep them in the same place".
Where?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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