[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH v3] Add support for C-style in dtsi files

[Nikolay Martynov]

2015-12-07 11:16 GMT-05:00 Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya at gmail.com>:
> Sorry, I've missed those questions. Let me try answering them.
>
> Now also including the list.
>
> 2015-12-07 10:39 GMT-05:00 Jonas Gorski <jogo at openwrt.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> you still haven't answered my questions:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Current way of compuling dts files involves calling C preprocessor on
>>> main dts file only. This means that dtsi includes cannot have C-style includes.
>>
>> Why not? Shouldn't they get processed as well as long as they are
>> included with #include, not /include/? Can you give an example that
>> doesn't work?
>
>  You are right and this will work.
>  That being said, in my very humble opinion this seems somewhat odd to
> do this not in a way kernel does it. I.e. it is kind of confusing to
> introduce include syntax that is different from one used dts.
>  Approach I'm suggesting covers all cases currently used in OpenWrt
> dts files and doesn't force one to use '#include' for dtsi.

  One semi-minor inconvenience caused by '#include' style for dtsi's
is that one needs to update all dts files using given dtsi if he wants
to introduce include inside dtsi - since majority of OpwnWrt tree uses
`/include/' style.

>
>>
>>> This patch addresses this problem. It uses approach similar to one
>>> use in linux kernel: it preprocesses all dtsi's in current dir into
>>> tmp dir and then uses that tmp dir as include dir for main dts compilation.
>>
>> I can't find this code in the kernel at all. Can you please point that out?
>   It's in scripts/Makefile.lib, look for cmd_dtc.
>
>
> --
> Martynov Nikolay.
> Email: mar.kolya at gmail.com



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