Hi, On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 08:39:33PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote: > As I feared things have taken a turn for the bitter end :-] > > It seems that this is a heated topic, so I'l kindly ask that we try > the following: > > - For people such as myself/Tobias/others who feel that driver and DT > bindings should go hand in hand, prove them wrong. > But please, do so by pointing to the documentation (conclusion of a > previous discussion). This way you don't have to repeat yourself and > get [too] annoyed over silly suggestions. http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt#L13 "The "Open Firmware Device Tree", or simply Device Tree (DT), is a data structure and language for describing hardware. More specifically, it is a description of hardware that is readable by an operating system so that the operating system doesn't need to hard code details of the machine" http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt#L79 "What it does do is provide a language for decoupling the hardware configuration from the board and device driver support in the Linux kernel (or any other operating system for that matter)." And like I said, we already had bindings for out of tree bindings, like this one: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9275707/ Which triggered no discussion at the time (but the technical one, hence a v2, that should always be done). > - The series has code changes which [seemingly] cater for out of tree > module(s). That patch was dropped, only DT changes remains now, and do not depend of that missing patch anyway. > Clearly state in the commit message who is the user, why it's save to > do so and get an Ack from more prominent [DRM] developers. DRM is really not important here. We could implement a driver using i2c as far as the DT is concerned. FreeBSD for example uses a different, !DRM framework to support our display stack, and still uses the DT. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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