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

From	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers
Date	2016-09-13 17:50 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 04:55:59PM +0200, Sebastian Frias wrote:
> On 09/13/2016 03:12 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >> Exactly, that is why I was thinking it would take less "review" time.
> >> Indeed, if there is no driver, why would it matter what those bindings
> >> are?
> > 
> > If you believe that the bindings don't matter, then there is absolutely
> > no reason for them to exist in the first place.
> > 
> > If those binding matter to *anyone*, then those collating the bindings
> > have some responsibility of stewardship, and that includes
> > review/maintenance/etc.
> 
> The thing is that right now it seems the "responsibility of stewardship"
> lies only within "Linux", whereas DT is proposed as open for everybody,
> Bootloaders, FreeBSD, etc.
> 
> In that case, shouldn't the "responsibility" be shared?

Ideally, yes.

Which is one of the reasons devicetree.org was set up as a common forum
for projects to collaborate on devicetree.

Thanks,
Mark.

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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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