Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: omap: Add TI Pandaboard A4 variant

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 22/01/2025 15:17, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:36:29AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 22/01/2025 01:12, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>> Document the ti,omap4-panda-a4 compatible string in the appropriate
> >>> place within the omap family binding file.
> >>
> >> Why? Where is any user of this? Your commit msg should explain this,
> >> because it's not obvious. Obvious is to send binding with the user, but
> >> the second patch is missing.
> > 
> > You were cc'd on
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250121200749.4131923-1-trini@konsulko.com/
> I am cc-ed on 200 patches per day and it means nothing. Do you expect me
> to look for missing user in 1000 patches per week, for every 1000
> patches? Or how does it supposed to work?

Being an overwhelmed maintainer sucks, I really do get that, sorry for
my short reply.

> But regardless, the majority of review is done via patchwork and that
> DTS patch was not in that thread. It's missing.
> 
> You are supposed to send the binding and the user DTS in the same
> patchset. Separate makes little sense in case of kernel.
> 
> If you need the binding for other projects, then of course above changes
> into: always reference the other project submission.

It's fixing a 10 year old regression where the equally viable option is
to just delete the dts file as I'm 99.9% sure no one has even tried
using it in that time.

-- 
Tom