Re: [PATCH 16/54] MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for drm device tree bindings

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon May 23 2016 - 08:35:30 EST


On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 22 May 2016 at 10:05, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Submitters of device tree binding documentation may forget to CC
>> the subsystem maintainer if this is missing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>> Please apply this patch directly if you want to be involved in device
>> tree binding documentation for your subsystem.
>> ---
>> MAINTAINERS | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index c79b99dd3a0bf22d..75138c09dd603093 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -3868,6 +3868,9 @@ T: git git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux
>> S: Maintained
>> F: drivers/gpu/drm/
>> F: drivers/gpu/vga/
>> +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/
> Contains a mixed bag of fb (drivers/video) and drm ones. Perhaps one
> could/should move the former to a fb/legacy/other subfolder ?

Yes, there are some poorly designed bindings that reflect the
subsystem needs rather than the h/w. They were separate, I moved them
all together to hopefully discourage further separate bindings.

>> +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/
> nvidia,gk20a.txt
> samsung-g2d.txt
> samsung-rotator.txt
>
> These three should be listed alongside the respective drivers and/or
> moved to display/{tegra,exynos} ?

Possibly, but these bindings pretty much stand on their own.

>> +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/
> bridge/anx7814.txt move this to display ?

Yes, that directory sneaked back in.

Rob