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

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Err, what?
>>
>> $ git log --merges --grep='Pull.*\(Herring\|Likely\)' --oneline
>> Documentation/devicetree/
>
> OK nice, bad research from me. My sloppy statement was
> based on this:
>
> OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE
> M:      Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
> M:      Frank Rowand <frowand.list at gmail.com>
> M:      Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>
> L:      devicetree at vger.kernel.org
> W:      http://www.devicetree.org/
> T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glikely/linux.git
> S:      Maintained
> F:      drivers/of/
> F:      include/linux/of*.h
> F:      scripts/dtc/
>
>> The DT core code and bindings (which don't go thru subsystem trees) go
>> together.
>
> I guess I should just send a patch adding
>
> F:    Documentation/devicetree/*

I see you found it is already there...

>
> ...and hope things get better from that.
>
>>> 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'd suggest devicetree-spec at vger for common things. Perhaps we need a
>> better name, but the whole point of this was to separate the common
>> issues from the firehose and have multiple OS participation.
>
> Hm, wasn't devicetree at vger.kernel.org supposed to be for that?

Yes, but BSD developers complained about all the Linux driver patches,
so devicetree-spec was created as was devicetree-compiler to try to
separate out the lower volume stuff. We need to do more with
MAINTAINERS so that common bindings go to devicetree-spec.

Rob