Re: [PATCH] docs: Change reference that was to removed file

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Jan 19 2021 - 19:02:34 EST


Milan Lakhani <milan.lakhani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[CC += Rob]

> There were two references to
> Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.rst for dtb format
> information. This file has been removed, so I have changed the links to
> Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.rst for this information, which
> itself points to https://elinux.org/Device_Tree_Usage for an overview of
> the device tree data format.
>
> Signed-off-by: Milan Lakhani <milan.lakhani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/arm/booting.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/translations/zh_CN/arm/Booting | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm/booting.rst b/Documentation/arm/booting.rst
> index a226345..5392d01 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm/booting.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arm/booting.rst
> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ it. The recommended placement is in the first 16KiB of RAM.
>
> The boot loader must load a device tree image (dtb) into system ram
> at a 64bit aligned address and initialize it with the boot data. The
> -dtb format is documented in Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.rst.
> +dtb format is documented in Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.rst.

Except that ... usage-model.rst doesn't actually document the DTB
format. Perhaps we should instead substitute a link that does what's
promised here?

Thanks,

jon