Re: [PATCH 1/5] regulator: of: Add regulator-initial-mode parse support

[Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:19:47PM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> 
> On 10/09/2014 12:27 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >> 
> >> Well, is not fairly obvious to me. One can also say the opposite, why the
> >> kernel is documenting a DT binding that is not (currently) implemented?
> > 
> > Checkpatch will complain regarding undocumented bindings, so from a
> > pragmatic point of view the binding must come first.
> >
> > Personally, when I read a patch series I do an initial pass in-order,
> > and having the binding first makes things clearer. I might have some
> > questions regarding the binding that the driver answers later, and it makes it
> > easier to spot undocumented properties or conventions used by the
> > driver. Doing so the other way around usually leaves me with more
> > questions at the end.
> >
> 
> Thanks a lot for the explanation, it certainly makes sense then to have
> the DT binding before. I'll propose a patch to add that information to
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt so people
> (like me) who didn't find it obvious can know what the convention is.

That sounds like a good idea; yes please.

Thanks,
Mark.