From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] Documentation: add LP3943 DT bindings and document Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:30:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20130916073000.GA3999@lee--X1> References: <1378949700-6384-1-git-send-email-milo.kim@ti.com> <20130912152455.GN11227@lee--X1> <20130915112755.GB9765@ulmo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130915112755.GB9765@ulmo> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: Milo Kim , Samuel Ortiz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, Linus Walleij , devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 15 Sep 2013, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 04:24:55PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Milo Kim wrote: > [...] > > > diff --git a/Documentation/lp3943.txt b/Documentation/lp3943.txt > > > new file mode 100644 > > > index 0000000..576ebd0 > > > --- /dev/null > > > +++ b/Documentation/lp3943.txt > [...] > > If this stuff is really important (and most of it really isn't), th= en > > put it either in the commit log or in the driver. >=20 > I can only speak for myself, but the initial driver commit message is > about the last place I look for this kind of information. I'd expect = it > to be either somewhere in Documentation/ or in one of the source file= s. > In this case I'd probably look at the MFD core driver source file. Mo= re > likely, even, I'd just go google "LP3943" and grab a public datasheet > from TI where all of this can hopefully be found. The latter option is the most common. If the datasheet is publicly available, then there is no rhyme nor reason to put it in the kernel source too. /Documentation is already overloaded, it would be even more so if each and every driver residing in the kernel decided to bulk it up further. --=20 Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org =E2=94=82 Open source software for ARM SoCs =46ollow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog