[U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt: Enhance dts/Makefile to be all things to all men

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <51A67EC1.2000208 at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> To keep this process in check a bit, we could always pick a specific git
> commit or release version of dtc that each U-Boot version (release) will
> be allowed to assume. That will limit the number of times people need to
> update their locally-built dtc to at most once per U-Boot release.
> Hopefully much less often.

I think this is broken by design, in several aspects.  First, U-Boot
is usually not the only user of DTC.  Second, assume you run a "git
bisect" over a U-Boot tree - would you really want to switch DTC in-
flight?

Sorry, instead we should strive to be compatible to a reasonably old,
stable version of DTC, like we do for all other tools as well.  As
mentioned before - just because RHEL 5 ships an ancient version of -
say - "make" we will NOT start building this from the sources ourself.
This cannot be the way to go.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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