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

[Mark Rutland]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 02:57:22PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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.

From	Rob Herring 
Date	Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:20:13 -0500
Subject	[GIT PULL] DeviceTree for 4.3

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/1/526

> 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.

I have no problem with patches going to an extended set of lists.

> 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.

Rob, we should organise rotating the reponsibility of picking things up.

I'd been meaning to organise something official previously, and this is
a good kick to do so.

Thanks,
Mark.