Re: [PATCH 00/10] dt-bindings: Convert SP805 to Json-schema (and fix users)

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Aug 28 2020 - 17:29:02 EST


On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:34 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/28/20 6:05 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > This is an attempt to convert the SP805 watchdog DT binding to yaml.
> > This is done in the first patch, the remaining nine fix some DT users.
> >
> > I couldn't test any of those DT files on actual machines, but tried
> > to make the changes in a way that would be transparent to at least the
> > Linux driver. The only other SP805 DT user I could find is U-Boot, which
> > seems to only use a very minimal subset of the binding (just the first
> > clock).
> > I only tried to fix those DTs that were easily and reliably fixable.
> > AFAICT, a missing primecell compatible string, for instance, would
> > prevent the Linux driver from probing the device at all, so I didn't
> > dare to touch those DTs at all. Missing clocks are equally fatal.
>
> What is the plan for merging this series? Should Rob pick up all changes
> or since those are non critical changes, should we just leave it to the
> SoC maintainers to pick up the changes in their tree?

I don't take .dts files. Either subarch maintainers can pick up
individual patches or send a PR to SoC maintainers.

Rob