Re: [PATCH 3/6] dt-bindings: hwmon: ibm,cffps: move to trivial devices

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Sep 21 2021 - 08:45:49 EST


On 21/09/2021 14:30, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 12:28:29PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> The IBM Common Form Factor Power Supply Versions 1 and 2 bindings are
>> trivial, so they can be integrated into trivial devices bindings.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I won't accept any of those "move to trivial devices" patches. In many cases
> the bindings are simply incomplete. I can not and will not make that call,
> and I always did and will leave it up to driver authors to decide if they
> want to add a device to trivial devices or provide explicit bindings.
>
> Please stop sending those patches.
>

Back in the older times, there were no trivial-devices and checkpatch
plus maintainers required documenting compatibles, so some of such
simple bindings were created.

I understand however your point, fair enough. I'll stop sending such
patches.

Best regards,
Krzysztof