Merge dtc

[Kumar Gala]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:25:57 -0600
> Jon Loeliger <jdl at jdl.com> wrote:
>
>> So, like, the other day David Woodhouse mumbled:
>>>
>>> I think this is a bad idea -- it's hardly a difficult for those  
>>> people
>>> who _do_ need dts to obtain it separately.
>>>
>>> We shouldn't be merging _more_ stuff in.
>>
>> Thanks for chiming in here, David W.  As far as I can tell
>> so far, the only two people who have voiced an opinion on
>> this issue are Dave G, submitting patches, and me disagreeing
>> with the approach.  :-)
>>
>> Anyone else?
>
> I don't see an overwhelmingly great reason to merge it.  It might help
> test people who do automated rebuilds, etc and aren't used to dealing
> with powerpc and it's requirements.  Outside of that, I see it as
> dual-maintenance.
>
> But I'm not doing the maintenance, and it doesn't effect me too much.
> I only ask that a decision is made and executed on soon so we can move
> on.

I'm also in disagreement of duplicating dtc in the kernel.

However, if we are going to do this we should make the path expansion  
for labels work before we do it.

- k