On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 02:57:22PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > Jon & Grant especially: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Me > >> I will go in and answer the comment on the DT mailing list so there is > >> some push atleast. > > > > Perhaps if we could see some movement then it would provide > > encouragement to continue. So far I cannot recall seeing a single > > U-Boot device tree change accepted in the 4 years I've been involved. > > That's not to say it hasn't happened, and I hope it is just a > > reflection on my memory rather than the difficulty level. > > OK this isn't working. > > I think the problem is that DT bindings have traditionally been merged to > the kernel by different subsystem maintainers. That means mailing them > and their mailing lists and this is IMO too complex for U-Boot people > (or other external people) to have to deal with. As subsystem > maintainer I'm not very happy about being the one responsible either. > > The MAINTAINERS entry for device tree bindings does not state a > git tree and I've never seen any of the maintainers send a pull request for > DT binding files. (Beat me up properly if you have, guys.) I've seen > Grant send some at times. From Rob Herring Date Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:20:13 -0500 Subject [GIT PULL] DeviceTree for 4.3 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/1/526 > I suggest sending U-Boot DT bindings to not only > devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > but also, as indicated, to Jon Corbet and linux-doc. I have no problem with patches going to an extended set of lists. > If noone cares to comment in two weeks, Jon can merge them, > breaking the status quo on external DT bindings. > > The DT bindings maintainance has sadly been a very sad story and if > the Linux kernel should be the canon repository for them, we > need to find a simple way for external projects to contribute. Just > mailing them to devicetree@vger obviously stands the risk of just > ending up in the memory hole. Rob, we should organise rotating the reponsibility of picking things up. I'd been meaning to organise something official previously, and this is a good kick to do so. Thanks, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
