[PATCH 1/6] kernel: import dt-overlay configfs patches for 5.10

[Daniel Golle]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 11:28:05AM +0200, Oskari Lemmelä wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 25.11.2021 3.06, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > Import patchset allowing loading and applying device tree overlays at
> > run-time via configfs.
> > 
> > This will allow for packaging DTOs for hardware add-ons such as the
> > various HATs (Hardware Attached on Top) common for SBCs.
> > A new kernel config option CONFIG_OF_CONFIGFS is introduced and some
> > additional sysfs attributes are added in case CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY is
> > enabled.
> 
> Is this something that did not get accepted by upstream linux?
> Those patches seem to be almost 8 years old.

I didn't investigate the full history of that patchset, I just found
it to be the default and only way available to modify DT from
user-space (and hence useful for SBC targets).

Quite a few trees on git.kernel.org come with that patch on top and
when looking for DT overlay documentation, the docs assume you got that
patch applied [1], [2]...

[1]: https://elinux.org/R-Car/DT-Overlays
[2]: https://www.96boards.org/documentation/consumer/dragonboard/dragonboard410c/guides/dt-overlays.md.html#3-load-overlays-dynamically