Re: [PATCH] media: dt: adv7604: Fix slave map documentation

["Michal Vokáč" <michal.vokac@ysoft.com>]

On 8.8.2018 12:25, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Kieran,
> 
> On Wednesday, 8 August 2018 13:23:32 EEST Kieran Bingham wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> Thank you for your review.
>>
>> +Rob, +Mark, +Laurent asking for opinions if anyone has any on prefixes
>> through media tree.
>>
>> On 08/08/18 08:48, Michal Vokáč wrote:
>>> On 7.8.2018 17:54, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>>> Hi Kieran,
>>>
>>>> The reg-names property in the documentation is missing an '='. Add it.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 9feb786876c7 ("media: dt-bindings: media: adv7604: Extend
>>>> bindings to allow specifying slave map addresses")
>>>
>>> "dt-bindings: media: " is preferred for the subject.
>>
>> This patch will go through the media-tree as far as I am aware, and
>> Mauro prefixes all commits through the media tree with "media:" if they
>> are not already prefixed.

OK, I did not know about that practice with the prefix.

Anyway, why should this patch go through media-tree when it is a single
patch affecting device tree binding only? I would expect it to be picked
by Rob or Mark.

>> Thus this would then become "media: dt-bindings: media: adv7604: ...."
>> as per my commit: 9feb786876c7 which seems a bit redundant.

Agree that this seems redundant. Absolutely no offense, just a curious
newbee question - why is the "media:" prefix added later on to *all* the
patches at all?

I understand that each subsystem has it own convenience what subject
prefix to use. Given that all patches are propperly formated after
the review process is finished I do not see a reason why the subject
should be changed.

So patches to "drivers/media/xxx" should land as "media: xxx: ..." and
patches to "Documentation/devicetree/bindings/xxx" should land as
"dt-bindings: media: xxx".

This allows easier git log browsing.
>>
>> Is it still desired ? If so I'll send a V2. (perhaps needed anyway, as I
>> seem to have erroneously shortened dt-bindings: to just dt: which wasn't
>> intentional.

I do not know. Some time ago I tripped over a patch from Rob explaining
how to properly format dt-binding related patches. I also read a bunch
of his replies to emails that were kind of "out of bounds" in this regard.
So I got an impression that he is starting to be upset that people still
make the same mistakes and do not read devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt

I deeply memorized that "rules" and once a while I go through the DT list
and reply to some emails that does not fit. Just because I am sure
that all maintainers are overloaded and surely have something more useful
to do than commenting on trivial mistakes.

Next time I will choose more wisely what emails I reply to :)
>>
>>> I think you should also add device tree maintainers to the recipients.
>>
>> Added to this mail to ask opinions on patch prefixes above.
>>
>> Originally, I believed the list was sufficient as this is a trivial
>> patch, and it goes through the media tree.
>>
>> But, it turned out to be more controversial :)
>>
>> Rob, Mark, should I add you to all patches affecting DT? Or is the list
>> sufficient?
> 
> Given the insane amount of patches received by DT maintainers, I personally
> try to use common sense and only disturb them when needed. Such a typo fix
> doesn't qualify for a full CC list in my opinion.

OK, sorry you spent your time discussing such a trivial thing folks.
I am still learning how to efficiently contribute and I still very much
depend on get_maintainers.pl output and other great tools others created ;)

Thank you for your time,
Michal

>>>> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/adv7604.txt | 2 +-
>>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/adv7604.txt
>>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/adv7604.txt
>>>> index dcf57e7c60eb..b3e688b77a38 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/adv7604.txt
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/adv7604.txt
>>>> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Example:
>>>>             * other maps will retain their default addresses.
>>>>             */
>>>>            reg = <0x4c>, <0x66>;
>>>> -        reg-names "main", "edid";
>>>> +        reg-names = "main", "edid";
>>>>              reset-gpios = <&ioexp 0 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
>>>>            hpd-gpios = <&ioexp 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
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