Re: [PATCH] Input: silead - list all supported compatible strings in binding document

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> Hello Rob,
>
> On 04/03/2017 11:25 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:25:31PM -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>> The driver contains compatible strings for different models, but the DT
>>> binding doc only lists one of them. Add the remaining to the document.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/silead_gsl1680.txt       | 7 ++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> "dt-bindings: input: ..." is preferred for the subject, but no need to
>> respin just for that.
>>
>
> Can we document it in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt?

Yes. Actually, I was thinking of adding the preferred prefixes to
MAINTAINERS. Then checkpatch.pl could check it perhaps.

> I'm asking because is true that at the beginning we used "dt-bindings: foo" for
> all DT bindings patches but then many (most?) maintainers started asking for the
> subsystem subject line to be used for both drivers and DT bindings docs since
> they would be merging both and also they could miss the DT bindings patches if
> their subsystem prefix was not used.

I'd argue that most subsys maintainers don't (or they just change it
when applying). Mark B does the most. I'm not going to waste any time
arguing over it if folks want something different. I'm mainly trying
to get rid of subjects like "Documentation: devicetree: bindings:
Document the DT binding for foo-bar". :)

Rob