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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kbuild: Allow DTB overlays to built from .dtso named source files
Hi Rob,

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 12:47 AM Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:13 AM Andrew Davis <afd@ti.com> wrote:
> > Currently DTB Overlays (.dtbo) are build from source files with the same
> > extension (.dts) as the base DTs (.dtb). This may become confusing and
> > even lead to wrong results. For example, a composite DTB (created from a
> > base DTB and a set of overlays) might have the same name as one of the
> > overlays that create it.
> >
> > Different files should be generated from differently named sources.
> > .dtb <-> .dts
> > .dtbo <-> .dtso
> >
> > We do not remove the ability to compile DTBO files from .dts files here,
> > only add a new rule allowing the .dtso file name. The current .dts named
> > overlays can be renamed with time. After all have been renamed we can
> > remove the other rule.
>
> There was a patch from Geert converting everything. I'd rather not
> support both ways.

Actually that was a patch from Frank?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

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