From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0013.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2D5C1B86C7; Sat, 2 May 2026 20:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.13 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777752252; cv=none; b=Ms97QnThs8Xv/w+SlUaz2TgcauT3bL9JhXKXFV11DirXzW3pNqNcc7S3FSUdLZeiW40CPUb6pKA2iia82ZeJsLAjOOKfuirW0CotVbxFZ9MCXvrmS9MGN8ixAttI1D58lZu2uohRR6++xvuVFhc0Yp5tddvefarTELXiP2Sq28Y= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777752252; c=relaxed/simple; bh=njiTbaYBJWD4TScC5VxuJpCX5iQXZO+WyPz1hKjg0do=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=Dx39rZA2sPXULo4eqFcputT33hTu0xpwk2VD6O0KCylhjtGfpSC1Kk+fv/46QHhOftMI0VKb9IS9xquYiH+++XpCmFKmWXIj1eXBQbLhqWbPQdLrCqs8vybwPOQ4EN59c0I0Bbgq3uEg19DexfBUGgHJI4NT/9jp4gw3GxCrQpk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.13 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com Received: from omf01.hostedemail.com (lb01a-stub [10.200.18.249]) by unirelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8893412067E; Sat, 2 May 2026 20:04:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 98BD76000C; Sat, 2 May 2026 20:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Update DT bindings should be a separate patch text From: Joe Perches To: Marek Vasut , devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Rob Herring , linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 02 May 2026 13:03:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20260502191052.94729-1-marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org> References: <20260502191052.94729-1-marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.58.3 (3.58.3-1.fc43) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Stat-Signature: bqxisyd3wtodaah3ei8zhcyq4wbbcmfw X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout08 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 98BD76000C X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1+NDFVyfY93kZALWt58SgUxZGM2LP9b2qM= X-HE-Tag: 1777752240-81456 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1+ql/My6nSfKJG5/7sfOoZtLW/eqyiMSQf1cNt+SFfPQMA+wjERmJPGPr5fTOcCW7poMuWjG7s10b9oJwHd4ITkkfyS0wdTO8Y+9V77wxcoOKBee75/dQjc7mcSSJoM+8cQrMmu0cQC17qzpOOC78G+QYqGeyF/dWicLsnTgRzcO3QOMshmMtzLNPS7TpkFLHeAT/IgQc6VX2o4Q1ZlvF+NdkzdenvERmhLXnz1Uo5V95v4fvoP3K969wLZf8OlFzPVMF3GfiMNfteXVmy+QWeD6NaGBCRkMfGZ1b5OPbgmDChnr05e15Lc On Sat, 2026-05-02 at 21:10 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > The current message can be slightly misleading, because it triggers > on a patchset which contains the following sequence of patches, even > if the bindings and headers are clearly a separate patch: I agree with Krzysztof, I don't find the existing text unclear. If you really think something needs to be more verbose, add --verbose to the checkpatch command line and update the documentation file Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst