[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 5/9] arm: serial: Add ability to use pre-initialized UARTs

[Linus Walleij]

Jon & Grant especially:

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Me
>> I will go in and answer the comment on the DT mailing list so there is
>> some push atleast.
>
> Perhaps if we could see some movement then it would provide
> encouragement to continue. So far I cannot recall seeing a single
> U-Boot device tree change accepted in the 4 years I've been involved.
> That's not to say it hasn't happened, and I hope it is just a
> reflection on my memory rather than the difficulty level.

OK this isn't working.

I think the problem is that DT bindings have traditionally been merged to
the kernel by different subsystem maintainers. That means mailing them
and their mailing lists and this is IMO too complex for U-Boot people
(or other external people) to have to deal with. As subsystem
maintainer I'm not very happy about being the one responsible either.

The MAINTAINERS entry for device tree bindings does not state a
git tree and I've never seen any of the maintainers send a pull request for
DT binding files. (Beat me up properly if you have, guys.) I've seen
Grant send some at times.

I suggest sending U-Boot DT bindings to not only
devicetree at vger.kernel.org
but also, as indicated, to Jon Corbet and linux-doc.

If noone cares to comment in two weeks, Jon can merge them,
breaking the status quo on external DT bindings.

The DT bindings maintainance has sadly been a very sad story and if
the Linux kernel should be the canon repository for them, we
need to find a simple way for external projects to contribute. Just
mailing them to devicetree at vger obviously stands the risk of just
ending up in the memory hole.

Jon, are you OK with taking on this or do we need to find another way
of funneling external DT bindings? Or do you want to do this Grant?

Yours,
Linus Walleij