Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: soc: Add binding doc for iProc IDM device

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Dec 16 2019 - 10:52:42 EST


On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 6:00 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 12/13/2019 3:50 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 05:09:34PM -0800, Ray Jui wrote:
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> >> On 12/5/19 4:09 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >>> On 12/2/19 3:31 PM, Ray Jui wrote:
> >>>> Add binding document for iProc based IDM devices.
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> >>>> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >>> Looks good to me, it's 2019, nearly 2020, maybe make this a YAML
> >>> compatible binding since it is a new one?
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> >> Sorry I am not aware of this YAML requirement until now.
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> >> Is this a new requirement that new DT binding document should be made with
> >> YAML format?
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> > The format has been in place in the kernel for a year now and we've
> > moved slowly towards it being required. If you're paying that little
> > attention to upstream, then yes it's definitely required so someone else
> > doesn't get stuck converting your binding later.
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> > BTW, I think all but RPi chips still need their SoC/board bindings
> > converted. One of the few not yet converted...
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> Is there something more to do than what Stefan did here:
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> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ab06837dd269b600396b298e9f4678d02b11b71d

No, that's it.

> we could convert other Broadcom SoCs, and there, just found another
> weekend project!
> --
> Florian