Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] dt-bindings: sc16is7xx: Add compatible line for XR20M1172 UART

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 05:52:38PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 05:34:44PM +0300, Konstantin P. wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 5:24 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 19/04/2024 16:17, Konstantin P. wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > Commits must stand on their own. Cover letter is not merged. This is the
> > > place where you add new hardware, so here you describe and explain the
> > > hardware.
> > 
> > It is also described in patch 3 in the series. I need to repeat this
> > description in patch 2 too?
> > 
> > Cite from patch 3:
> > 
> > XR20M1172 register set is mostly compatible with SC16IS762, but it has
> > a support for additional division rates of UART with special DLD register.
> 
> The point is, if I got it correctly, to have a few words in the description
> of the DT binding itself, so whoever reads the bindings (w/o even accessing
> the Git history of the project) may understand this.

Yes, each patch must independently justify the change - although in this
case it is about the history not people reading the bindings as I was
talking about the commit message and not the contents of the diff.
It's especially true when I only get sent the bindings patch, although
from other messages in this thread that may not have been intentional.

Thanks,
Conor.

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