Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add dtc flag test

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon May 24 2021 - 10:22:12 EST


On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 6:40 AM Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 03:22, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:59 AM Elliot Berman <eberman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Host dtc may not support the same flags as kernel's copy of dtc. Test
>> > if dtc supports each flag when the dtc comes from host.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <eberman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> I think this supports only the newer external DTC,
>> but not older ones.
>>
>> This feature is intended to test the upstream DTC
>> before resyncing in-kernel scripts/dtc/.
>
>
> Was there ever a follow-up to this?

As Masahiro said, using an older dtc is not a usecase we care about.

Rob