[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: dts: socfpga: fix DTC unit name warnings

[Marek Vasut]

On 04/19/2016 07:01 AM, Heiko Schocher wrote:
> Hello Marek,
> 
> Am 18.04.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Marek Vasut:
>> On 04/18/2016 05:46 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 05:37:02PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 04/18/2016 05:31 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:41:02PM +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Fix following DTC warnings for all socfpga boards:
>>>>>
>>>>> We're going to defer on this patch for now, thanks.
>>>>>
>>>> Can you elaborate please?
>>>
>>> Yes, I did in another of the threads here (aside, I wish this was done a
>>> series and there was a 0/N, but, oh well).  We import these from the
>>> kernel, as this isn't a U-Boot change, we're the wrong place to start
>>> making these changes by and large.  In some quick googling around, the
>>> various SoC trees are updating to fix these problems and we'll pull them
>>> in whenever our relevant custodian is happy.  Or when someone can say
>>> "resync with $hash from the kernel" and get them Acked-by or whatever.
>>>
>> You will want to backport this patch, it's in linux-next too:
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kbuild/msg12538.html
> 
> Yes ... we ignore warnings ... maybe an agreement ...
> 
> I can prepare a patch for this, but I prefer to add this build flag
> for each arch, so we can at least remove it for each arch, when all
> warnings are fixed in linux and we did a sync with linux ...
> 
> Would this be OK?

The patch explains that the warnings of this type are only displayed if
you set W=1 or W=2 for the build system. I suspect the DTC is just a bit
too eager to display warnings which are not very important.

If you want to hunt down warnings, set W=n , no need to introduce
another knob :)

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut