From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from saturn.retrosnub.co.uk ([178.18.118.26]:47357 "EHLO saturn.retrosnub.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752535Ab3HDPV7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Aug 2013 11:21:59 -0400 Message-ID: <51FE7FAB.8050608@kernel.org> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:22:03 +0100 From: Jonathan Cameron MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxime Ripard CC: Jacek Anaszewski , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, denis.ciocca@st.com, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, l.czerwinski@samsung.com, Kyungmin Park Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iio: lps331ap: Add support for DT References: <1374240981-13560-1-git-send-email-j.anaszewski@samsung.com> <1374240981-13560-2-git-send-email-j.anaszewski@samsung.com> <51FE4117.3040404@kernel.org> <51FE4267.2090409@kernel.org> <20130804120854.GV2911@lukather> In-Reply-To: <20130804120854.GV2911@lukather> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On 08/04/13 13:08, Maxime Ripard wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 01:00:39PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >> On 08/04/13 12:55, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >>> On 07/19/13 14:36, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: >>>> This patch adds DT support for the lps331ap barometer sensor. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park >>>> >>> This makes sense to me and looks similar to that in existing bindings hence, >>> >>> Applied to the togreg branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git >> Actually I've backed this change out as I've just read a few more emails down my backlog and found a long >> discussion of it when it got pulled into another patch set. Will review that discussion before making any >> decisions on this one. > > Also, a new process begin to emerge, and now, every new bindings should be acked by the new device tree > maintainers. I'm not sure the discussion on the exact process has been settled, so that's probably why not all the > maintainers are aware of that, but this ACK is (or will be) required for every new binding that comes in, and this > should be enforced by all maintainers. > > The underlying thinking is that DT bindings should be a stable ABI, and as such be properly reviewed, instead of > just being looked at by the other maintainers that are often not interested or just don't really know about DT at > all. > > You can see parts of this discussion here: > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/devicetree-discuss/2013-July/038275.html > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/devicetree-discuss/2013-July/038264.html > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/186420.html > Thanks for the heads up. I'd picked up on this a little via LWN. Hopefully the process will become clear shortly. Jonathan