Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] dt-bindings: Document common device controller bindings

[Gatien CHEVALLIER <gatien.chevallier@foss.st.com>]

Hello Krzysztof,

On 12/22/22 11:22, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Please use scripts/get_maintainers.pl to get a list of necessary people
> and lists to CC.  It might happen, that command when run on an older
> kernel, gives you outdated entries.  Therefore please be sure you base
> your patches on recent Linux kernel.
> 
> 
> On 21/12/2022 18:30, Gatien Chevallier wrote:
>> From: Oleksii Moisieiev <Oleksii_Moisieiev@epam.com>
> 
> You same From as SoB.
> 
>>
>> Introducing of the common device controller bindings for the controller
>> provider and consumer devices. Those bindings are intended to allow
>> divided system on chip into muliple domains, that can be used to
>> configure hardware permissions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Oleksii Moisieiev <oleksii_moisieiev@epam.com>
> 
> Missing SoB.
> 
> Missing changelog. This is not v1 but v7 or something >
> 
> 
>> ---
>>   .../feature-domain-controller.yaml            | 84 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 84 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/feature-controllers/feature-domain-controller.yaml
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/feature-controllers/feature-domain-controller.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/feature-controllers/feature-domain-controller.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..90a7c38c833c
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/feature-controllers/feature-domain-controller.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/feature-controllers/feature-domain-controller.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: Generic Domain Controller bindings
> 
> Drop "bindings".
> 
> Anyway you duplicate work here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/c869d2751125181a55bc8a88c96e3a892b42f37a.1668070216.git.oleksii_moisieiev@epam.com/
> and maybe you duplicate comments.
> 
> I don't think there is point to review things twice, so NAK.
This is a result of me not knowing how to handle this particular case. 
It is a patch that I need to have in my patch set in order to pass Rob's 
bindings check. Otherwise, feature domains bindings defined here will 
not be known in the STM32 System Bus binding file, where they are used.

I wanted to illustrate the use of Oleksii's binding with a practical 
use-case that we want to implement.

What would be the correct way of managing this dependency?
-Specify something like "On top of ...." in the cover letter/patch and 
reference the other thread?
-Use a "Depends-On" tag on the YAML binding commit?
-Something else?

Best regards,
Gatien

> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>