Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: Convert vendor prefixes to json-schema

[Aaro Koskinen]

Hi,

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 08:02:08AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:23 PM Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 02:40:18PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > Convert the vendor prefix registry to a schema. This will enable checking
> > > that new vendor prefixes are added (in addition to the less than perfect
> > > checkpatch.pl check) and will also check against adding other prefixes
> > > which are not vendors.
> > >
> > > Converted vendor-prefixes.txt using the following sed script:
> > >
> > > sed -e 's/\([a-zA-Z0-9\-]*\)[[:space:]]*\([a-zA-Z0-9].*\)/  "^\1,\.\*\":\n    description: \2/'
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > [...]
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > > deleted file mode 100644
> > > index e9034a6c003a..000000000000
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > > +++ /dev/null
> > > @@ -1,476 +0,0 @@
> > > -Device tree binding vendor prefix registry.  Keep list in alphabetical order.
> > [...]
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..be037fb2cada
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,975 @@
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> >
> > Is there a license change as well?
> 
> It is, as we're trying to dual license schema files when possible. I
> have permission from Grant who was the primary author. Also, given
> that the file is 235 different authors with most being 1-2 lines, I
> don't think that really meets the threshold of being copyright
> holders.

OK. I was just wondering because the changelog suggests it was only a
mechanical conversion.

I remember DT may have preference to dual license but based on quick
grep couldn't find that stated anywhere...

A.