[PATCH v2 0/8] An effort to bring DT bindings compliance within U-Boot

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 22/12/2023 07:12, Sumit Garg wrote:
> Changes in v2:
> --------------
> - Patch #1: excluded gitab CI config check and added commit description.
> - Patch #3: s/UBOOT_DTSI_LOC/u_boot_dtsi_loc/
> - Patch #4: s/DEVICE_TREE_LOC/dt_dir/ and s/U-boot/U-Boot/
> - Patch #5: s/U-boot/U-Boot/
> - Patch #6 and #7: Picked up review tags
> 
> Prerequisite
> ------------
> 
> This patch series requires devicetree-rebasing git repo to be added as a
> subtree to the main U-Boot repo via:
> 
> $ git subtree add --prefix devicetree-rebasing \
>       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/devicetree/devicetree-rebasing.git \
>       v6.6-dts --squash
> 
> Background
> ----------
> 
> This effort started while I was reviewing patch series corresponding to
> Qcom platforms [1] which was about to import modified devicetree source
> files from Linux kernel. I suppose keeping devicetree files sync with
> Linux kernel without any DT bindings schema validation has been a pain
> for U-Boot SoC/platform maintainers. There has been past discussions
> about a single DT repo but that hasn't come up and Linux kernel remained
> the place where DT source files as well as bindings are placed and
> maintained.

Thanks for doing this.

I really suggest to store information that kernel DTS is directly
re-used, thus DTS backward and forward compatibility matters, also in
Linux kernel sources. The point is that sub-arch maintainers should be
aware of it. I don't think that as DT maintainers we can efficiently
keep an eye on it. Maybe create a subsystem profile and include it to
maintainer entries of such affected platforms?

Best regards,
Krzysztof

Best regards,
Krzysztof