Re: DT schema bindings conversion mentorships (was Re: [PATCH v5] ASoC: dt-bindings: omap-mcpdm: Convert to DT schema)

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On 23/05/2024 18:24, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 7:30 AM Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/22/24 20:05, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> Dear Daniel, Shuah, Julia, Javier and other mentorship managers,
>>>
>>> I see some contributions regarding Devicetree bindings which look like
>>> efforts of some mentorship programs. It's great, I really like it. Only
>>> sadness is that no one ever asked us, Devicetree maintainers, about some
>>> sort of guidelines. This leads to sub-optimal allocation of tasks and
>>> quite a strain on reviewers side: for example we receive contributions
>>> which were never tested (tested as in make target - make
>>> dt_binding_check). Or people converted bindings which really do not
>>> matter thus their work soon will become obsolete.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>
>> Some of the faulty patches are on me! Sorry for that. We had an
>> unexpected high
>>
>> number of people sending contributions for Google Summer of Code and I
>> couldn't watch them all.
>>
>> Now, the application period has ended and we have 1 intern working for
>> the summer!
>>
>> Will follow your guidance! Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> To be specific, there are several ways to prioritize what to work on.
> 
> - There's a list maintained in CI of number of occurrences of
> undocumented (by schema) compatibles[1]. Start at the top.
> - Pick a platform (or family of platform) and get the warnings down to
> 0 or close. There's a grouping of warnings and undocumented
> compatibles by platform family at the same link.
> - Prioritize newer platforms over older (arm64 rather than
> arm32(though there's still new arm32 stuff)).
> - Fix warnings treewide from common schemas (i.e. from dtschema).
> That's not conversions, but related.
> 
> Rob
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/robherring/linux-dt/-/jobs/6918723853

Thank you Rob, I forwarded your recommendations to the LFX mentees.

Best regards,
Javier Carrasco




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