On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:39:30PM +0200, Łukasz Majewski wrote: > Hi Tom, > > >On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 06:50:01PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > >>On 09/24/2017 04:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > >>>The following series has been applied. I am posting this for the record. > >>> > >>>For the record, I do not believe that using git submodules is a good > >>>approach > >>>here. We have a small amount of code that we need here, and happily we can > >>>leverage infrastructur e from the Linux Kernel. > >>> > >>>Speaking of, this is not the first time we have run into problems deviating > >>>from the workflow of the kernel. The problems of having large number of > >>>warnings, or not stemmed from not just leve raging all of the > >>>infrastructure > >>>from the kernel. So related, yes, fixes for these warnings should come in, > >>>and as always, if they're in the upstream kernel dts as well, they should > >>>be > >>>fixed there. > >> > >>So any comments regarding bundling external tools were ignored, even > >>though the discussion was not finished, great. > >> > >>Furthermore, there was zero time to review this series, it was just > >>applied and posted afterward ? What sort of practice is this ? > > > >Yes. I put on my slightly-less-than-benevolent dictator hat today, and > > Linus style? :D Management
It is not my general preference, but yes. > >explained my reasoning. I do feel bad that you're rather unhappy with > >the overall situation, but no, I believe this is the right answer. > > > >Now, there's some follow up further re-syncing with the kernel that > >could be done (scripts/Makefile.lib/extrawarn can be further re-matched > >up with the kernel now, but that would have made a larger delta than > >"just migrate to providing the tool"). > > But seriously, do we have some kind of road map for this? > > I mean if we have copied the dtc tool into u-boot temporarily (until > distros catch up) or will it stay with us forever ? I think long term we'll match what the kernel does and keep synced with upstream, just what we need. I'm thinking I ought to see about pushing a re-sync in the kernel for the next -rc1 there as I know it has been lamented that it hasn't happened in a bit. -- Tom
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