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Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 18:58:24 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
Cc: Kartik Nair <contact.kartikn@gmail.com>, robh@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: misc: add documentation for MediaLB DIM2
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On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 05:14:21PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> Greg, Rob,
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 12:14:19AM +0530, Kartik Nair wrote:
> > Add device tree binding documentation for the MediaLB DIM2 hardware
> > dependent module. This documents the compatible strings used in
> > drivers/staging/most/dim2/dim2.c which were previously flagged as
> > undocumented by checkpatch.
> 
> Are we actually meant to be taking bindings for things in staging?

Nope!

> I thought half the point of things being in staging that the state they
> were in was poor at best, and that changing properties etc may be
> required as part of destaging them.
> 
> Greg? Rob?

Staging drivers need to be self-contained, without bindings outside of
drivers/staging/

thanks,

greg k-h