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

[Emil Velikov]

On 23 May 2016 at 13:35, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
I'm slightly concerned that someone will pick one of these and
consider it good, basing their design on it. That's why I was thinking
that moving them to a subfolder (called nasty/bad-design/legacy and/or
alike) might be a good idea.


>>> +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.
>
Having a gpu only in different places does feel odd - nvidia,gk20a (in
gpu) vs etnaviv (in display). If we consider 'rotator' a GPU perhaps
so are exynos' mixer, mic...

Not saying that one has to do one or the other... just that it's not
that bad of an idea ;-)

Emil