In an attempt to make it more broadly known that other projects are
equal consumers / users of the device tree bindings, add a note to
submitting patches to say that extra care and consideration may need to
be taken when updating existing bindings.
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst
index 8087780f1685..36a17b250ccc 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ I. For patch submitters
string that is matched by the driver (as in the "nvidia,tegra20-pcie"
example above).
+ 9) Bindings are actively used by multiple projects other than the Linux
+ Kernel, extra care and consideration may need to be taken when making changes
+ to existing bindings.
II. For kernel maintainers
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