[PATCH v2 3/3] RFC: doc: Add documentation about devicetree usage

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Fri, 10 Sept 2021 at 08:00, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 02:53:46AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 08:48, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > We should, when applicable, submit our bindings upstream just like any
> > > other project.  We also want to make sure that when we do so, we hold
> > > ourselves to a high standard.
> >
> > I wonder if should just try just try that again, just to see what
> > happens. I vaguely remember the UART clock thing from many years ago,
> > being told that we should just probe the whole clock driver and then
> > have a debug UART...
> >
> > But it really isn't up to Linux to refuse to accept U-Boot bindings,
> > IMO. U-Boot has much right to u-boot, as Linux does to linux,
>
> A bit late, but yes, between then and now I believe things have changed
> and there is a more broad acceptance that just because the primary
> repository for device trees and bindings is the linux kernel does not
> mean that only the linux kernel needs to be considered.  So we really do
> need to pick something, polish it up, and then subject ourselves to
> review.

I sent a patch and this is under discussion now:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20211012074608.v2.1.I7733f5a849476e908cc51f0c71b8a594337fbbdf@changeid/

Regards,
Simon