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On 05/03/2025 23:29, Dean Marx wrote:
> This makes sense, I noticed though that nothing is actually stored in
> these placeholder directories yet, and dpdk is built in a separate
> folder. Is the plan in the future to move this to the placeholder
> directory? Or is there a different use case?
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dean Marx <dmarx@iol.unh.edu>

This is used in this patch series in `dts: enable build-less DPDK driver 
binding`. But yes the plan is to move everything to use a dedicated tmp 
folder. We don't want stray files/folders.