From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: deprecate trivial-devices.txt for i2c
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:48:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201134852.o5qbd73plz6ds66j@rob-hp-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170126225544.5431-2-wsa@the-dreams.de>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:55:43PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> The idea to collect trivial devices in a seperate file is coming from
> the early DT days and turned out to be a bad decision. It regularly
> creates maintenance pain and the information is not where users would
> expect it (i2c folder is for i2c bus drivers not clients). Also, we do
> not maintain such a file for other subsystems, so we should put an end
> to this as well. First step is to deprecate it and mention that it
> should be refactored into proper bindings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt | 10 +++++++---
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Actually, I prefer to keep it. Move it up a level and I will take
patches for it.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-01 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-26 22:55 [PATCH 0/2] dt-bindings: deprecate and move i2c/trivial-devices.txt Wolfram Sang
2017-01-26 22:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: deprecate trivial-devices.txt for i2c Wolfram Sang
2017-02-01 13:48 ` Rob Herring [this message]
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2017-01-26 22:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: move trivial devices out of i2c subdir Wolfram Sang
2017-02-01 13:50 ` Rob Herring
2017-02-01 18:35 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-02-07 11:08 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-02-07 15:46 ` Rob Herring
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