Re: [PATCH v2] iio: lps331ap: Add support for DT

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On 08/04/13 13:08, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 01:00:39PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 08/04/13 12:55, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>> On 07/19/13 14:36, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
>>>> This patch adds DT support for the lps331ap barometer sensor.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park
>>>> <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
>>> This makes sense to me and looks similar to that in existing bindings hence,
>>> 
>>> Applied to the togreg branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git
>> Actually I've backed this change out as I've just read a few more emails down my backlog and found a long
>> discussion of it when it got pulled into another patch set.  Will review that discussion before making any
>> decisions on this one.
> 
> Also, a new process begin to emerge, and now, every new bindings should be acked by the new device tree
> maintainers. I'm not sure the discussion on the exact process has been settled, so that's probably why not all the
> maintainers are aware of that, but this ACK is (or will be) required for every new binding that comes in, and this
> should be enforced by all maintainers.
> 
> The underlying thinking is that DT bindings should be a stable ABI, and as such be properly reviewed, instead of
> just being looked at by the other maintainers that are often not interested or just don't really know about DT at
> all.
> 
> You can see parts of this discussion here: 
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/devicetree-discuss/2013-July/038275.html 
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/devicetree-discuss/2013-July/038264.html 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/186420.html
> 
Thanks for the heads up. I'd picked up on this a little via LWN. Hopefully
the process will become clear shortly.



Jonathan