Re: ARM,SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Sun Aug 28 2016 - 17:00:58 EST


On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Sebastian Frias <sf84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If this is really not possible, it forces the SoC manufacturer to expose
> those properties in a different way, thus wasting a (seemingly) perfectly
> fine way of doing so: the DT and its documentation.

When you submit a new driver upstream, that patch also includes the
new device tree nodes and documentation for those nodes. Everything
is peer-reviewed together. I don't understand what you think the
problem is.