[PATCH 3/3] scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.4.7-14-gc86da84d30e4

Frank Rowand frowand.list at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 06:09:00 AEST 2018


On 09/18/18 11:55, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:32 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/13/18 13:28, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> Major changes are I2C and SPI bus checks, YAML output format (for
>>> future validation), some new libfdt functions, and more libfdt
>>> validation of dtbs.
>>>
>>> The YAML addition adds an optional dependency on libyaml. pkg-config is
>>> used to test for it and pkg-config became a kconfig dependency in 4.18.
>>
>> For Ubuntu, the libyaml dependency is provided by the packages:
>>
>>    libyaml-0-2
>>    libyaml-dev
> 
> Yes, but as it is not yet required by anything in the kernel I don't
> think that needs to be documented yet. Also, offhand, I don't think we
> generally document in the kernel distro specifics like package names.
> 
> Rob
> 

Agreed.  I was providing information that might save other people a bit
of research.  It is sufficiently visible in the email thread and does
not need to be in the commit message.


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