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

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>]

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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-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
> > 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

Maxime

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