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Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers

From Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers
Date 2016-09-13 13:40 +0200
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Sebastian Frias wrote:
> Let's make an abstraction of the word 'binding', 'create a binding', etc. and
> just focus on this:
> - Somebody submits a DT file that contains properties and nodes that are
> *not used*  by any Linux driver.
> - Said properties and nodes serve as HW description for HW blocks for which
> *there is no*  Linux driver.
>
> The goal of the above is to use the DT as the authoritative (and single)
> source of HW definition.

No.

I've grown weary of this discussion.  We have explained multiple times 
why this is impractical.  Using the DT to document hardware makes no 
sense.  No one is going to do that, and anyone who attempts to submit a 
DT binding without an actual driver will get rejected.

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Re: ARM,SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-12 14:30 +0200
  Re: ARM,SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-12 14:40 +0200
    Re: ARM,SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-12 15:20 +0200
      Re: ARM,SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org> - 2016-09-12 15:30 +0200
      Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-12 16:10 +0200
        Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> - 2016-09-12 16:30 +0200
          Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-12 18:30 +0200
            Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> - 2016-09-12 18:50 +0200
              Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org> - 2016-09-12 18:50 +0200
                Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-12 19:10 +0200
              Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-12 19:50 +0200
        Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-12 18:10 +0200
          Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-12 18:30 +0200
          Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org> - 2016-09-12 18:30 +0200
          Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-12 19:00 +0200
            Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-13 12:10 +0200
              Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org> - 2016-09-13 13:40 +0200
                Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-13 15:30 +0200
              Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-13 15:20 +0200
                Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-13 16:30 +0200
                Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-13 17:00 +0200
                Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-14 10:40 +0200
                Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-13 17:00 +0200
                Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-09-13 17:50 +0200
                Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party  drivers Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-09-14 10:30 +0200

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