Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] Documentation: bindings: add documentation for ir-spi device driver
From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Nov 09 2016 - 13:26:30 EST
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:39:21AM +0100, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 11:10 AM, Andi Shyti wrote:
> > Hi Jacek,
> >
> > > Only DT bindings of LED class drivers should be placed in
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds. Please move it to the
> > > media bindings.
> >
> > that's where I placed it first, but Rob asked me to put it in the
> > LED directory and Cc the LED mailining list.
> >
> > That's the discussion of the version 2:
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/12/380
> >
> > Rob, Jacek, could you please agree where I can put the binding?
>
> I'm not sure if this is a good approach. I've noticed also that
> backlight bindings have been moved to leds, whereas they don't look
> similarly.
>
> We have common.txt LED bindings, that all LED class drivers' bindings
> have to follow. Neither backlight bindings nor these ones do that,
> which introduces some mess.
And there are probably LED bindings that don't follow common.txt either.
> Eventually adding a sub-directory, e.g. remote_control could make it
> somehow logically justified, but still - shouldn't bindings be
> placed in the documentation directory related to the subsystem of the
> driver they are predestined to?
No. While binding directories often mirror the driver directories, they
are not the same. Bindings are grouped by types of h/w and IR LEDs are a
type of LED.
If you prefer a sub-dir, that is fine with me.
Rob