Re: Qualcomm DT bindings and DTS cleanups - tracking community wide

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On 11/10/2022 09:57, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 22/09/2022 10:32, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Quite a lot of people are working on Qualcomm DT bindings conversion
>> (TXT->YAML) and fixups to Qualcomm DTS. We track a bit of this effort
>> internally in Linaro, but that has many shortcomings and we would like
>> to track it rather community-wide with the support and contributions
>> from the community.
>>
>> What to track:
>> 1. Which bindings to convert to YAML,
>> 2. Missing compatibles (either entirely or because of missing conversion),
>> 3. `dt_binding_check` warnings (usually connected with 1-2),
>> 4. `dtbs_check` warnings.
>>
>> Rob's bot gives us daily output for 1-4, but how can we track current
>> efforts to avoid duplication of work? Also it would allow people to find
>> tasks for them to get contributions to Linux kernel :). Is anyone in
>> community interested in tracking it together, in a public way?
>>
>> If so, where?
>> A. elinux.org (needs some formatting when pasting the output from tools)
>> B. gitlab pages/wiki (maybe scripts could parse tools and create the page?)
>> C. gitlab dedicated repo - some text file
>> D. Linux kernel TODO file (might be difficult to keep updated)
>> E. kernel.org wiki (requires LF accounts, AFAIK, a bit pain to edit; I
>> have it for Exynos but I don't find it usable -
>> https://exynos.wiki.kernel.org/todo_tasks)
>>
>> I am leaning towards Gitlab pages because they could be quite automated
>> - with CI or with scripts.
> 
> This could be looking like that - the list of missing compatibles from
> Rob's tasks:
> https://gitlab.com/krzkoz/linux-dt-todo/-/blob/main/todo-compatibles.rst
> 
> There is a script which will automatically add new entries to the list
> (above RST file), once fed with Rob's job output. Further this could be
> probably pipelined with Rob's jobs.
> 
> List anyway has to be manually updated with work in progress.
> 
> This is for the compatibles. Missing part is doing something similar for
> the dtbs_check warnings.
> 
> In replies Luca, Caleb and Neil mentioned GitLab issues. That could be
> useful, so if someone would like to hook into GitLab API - feel free to
> work on that (either in that repo or in separate).

Just to be clear - if the approach is interesting to anyone, just join
the project / ask for access and make edits/changes etc.

To do this, you can visit https://gitlab.com/krzkoz/linux-dt-todo/ and
next to repository name (top/middle part of page) there should be
"Request Access" link.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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