i'm curious about the value of the small number of "dt-bindings" symlinks under some architectures that all simply link to the top-level include/dt-bindings/ directory: $ find . -name dt-bindings -exec ls -ld {} \; lrwxrwxrwx. 1 rpjday rpjday 34 Apr 26 13:07 ./arch/cris/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings lrwxrwxrwx. 1 rpjday rpjday 34 Apr 25 10:58 ./arch/powerpc/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings lrwxrwxrwx. 1 rpjday rpjday 34 Apr 25 10:57 ./arch/metag/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings lrwxrwxrwx. 1 rpjday rpjday 34 Apr 25 10:57 ./arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings lrwxrwxrwx. 1 rpjday rpjday 34 Apr 25 10:57 ./arch/arm/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings lrwxrwxrwx. 1 rpjday rpjday 34 Apr 25 10:57 ./arch/mips/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings drwxrwxr-x. 26 rpjday rpjday 4096 Apr 26 13:07 ./include/dt-bindings $ normally, i expect to see setups like that in cases where, historically, an architecture kept track of its own content and, at some point, it was centralized, so the previous directory (whatever it contained) was simply replaced by a symlink. but even without that arch-specific symlink, wouldn't the top-level include/dt-bindings/ directory be searched, anyway? or maybe not, i guess i'll check the Makefile to see if it would be. thoughts? given that all those symlinks are absolutely identical, couldn't they all just be removed? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================