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From: robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:31:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F01D64.9060609@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOesGMge5hCDCeXYHXanaF1vR8mngBwdjhNbzD+Tc2EDUPRgCQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/24/2013 10:27 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Every now and then I come across a binding that's just done Wrong(tm),
> merged through a submaintainer tree and hasn't seen proper review --
> if it had, it wouldn't look the way it does. It's something we're
> starting to address now since there's more people stepping up to be
> maintainers, but there's a backlog of bad bindings already merged.
> 
> Often they are produced by translating the platform_data structures
> directly over into device-tree properties without consideration to
> describing the hardware or usual conventions, using key/value pairs
> instead of boolean properties, etc.
> 
> Getting involved in cleaning up these kind of bindings is a great way
> to learn "the ways of device tree" for someone that has interest in
> that.
> 
> Latest find in this area is the Maxim 8925 bindings, that I came
> across since they caused a compile warning on some defconfig. I'll
> post a patch to address the warning but if someone else feels like
> fixing the bindings on top of it that would be appreciated!

Are they documented typically? Can we at a minimum update the
documentation with a big fat warning to not use or propagate the crap.
Or move the binding doc file to a fixme directory.

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-24 15:27 Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup? Olof Johansson
2013-07-24 18:31 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2013-07-24 19:03   ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-24 23:29     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-24 23:52       ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-24 23:15 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-24 23:20   ` Olof Johansson
2013-07-24 23:22     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-24 23:17 ` Domenico Andreoli
2013-07-24 23:20   ` Olof Johansson
2013-07-25  0:36     ` Domenico Andreoli
2013-07-25  0:57     ` Kyle Spaans (CSC)
2013-07-25 11:06 ` Dave Martin
2013-07-25 11:25   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-07-25 13:31     ` Mark Brown
2013-07-25 13:56     ` Domenico Andreoli
2013-07-25 14:27       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-07-25 14:38         ` Catalin Marinas
2013-07-28  4:47           ` Grant Likely

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