Re: [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: mailbox: Delete old 'mailbox.txt' bindings file
From: Rob Herring (Arm)
Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 18:45:34 EST
On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:46:12 -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> As per mailing-list discussions [1] [2] [3], we want to delete the
> following old file from the device-tree bindings that live in the
> Linux kernel git tree:
> * Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt
>
> The old .txt file did have some descriptive text about what some of
> the properties meant. Those have been added to the dt-schema
> repository in a pull request [4].
>
> Also remove dangling references to `mailbox.txt` across all remaining
> device-tree binding documentation files.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260722140214.GA548057-robh@xxxxxxxxxx [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dc7a2041-50a4-482e-9930-566bb3fd1e72@xxxxxxxxxx [2]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAL_JsqKVjQ2m-dzMUENQry-f_YE9QrYSOKoH9CPj1gjj8XkPRA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [3]
> Link: https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/202 [4]
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> - v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260804133801.1.I8b3ff71c528133e7d6f81fe926fa39e6451d63fd@changeid
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove dangling mailbox.txt references as per Sashiko.
>
> .../firmware/nvidia,tegra186-bpmp.yaml | 6 +-
> .../mailbox/allwinner,sun6i-a31-msgbox.yaml | 3 -
> .../bindings/mailbox/altera-mailbox.txt | 12 ++--
> .../mailbox/hisilicon,hi3660-mailbox.txt | 2 +-
> .../mailbox/hisilicon,hi6220-mailbox.txt | 2 +-
> .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt | 60 -------------------
> .../bindings/mailbox/ti,omap-mailbox.yaml | 3 +-
> .../power/reset/xlnx,zynqmp-power.yaml | 9 +--
> .../bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,aoss-qmp.yaml | 2 +-
> 9 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt
>
Applied, thanks!