Re: [PATCH v1] Documentation/process: add soc maintainer handbook

From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Conor.Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Cc: "Conor Dooley" <conor@kernel.org>,
	soc@kernel.org, "Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
	"Conor Dooley" <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Olof Johansson" <olof@lixom.net>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Documentation/process: add soc maintainer handbook
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 11:16:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea4bc471-9cac-4ef1-97aa-9cf71b60c785@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230516-grader-dejected-df65cdc584b3@wendy>

On Tue, May 16, 2023, at 10:57, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:31:19AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 15/05/2023 21:20, Conor Dooley wrote:
>
>> > + - Defer the devicetree changes to a release after the binding and driver have
>> > +   already been merged
>> > +
>> > + - Change the bindings in a shared immutable branch that is used as the base for
>> > +   both the driver change and the devicetree changes
>> 
>> The policy told to me some time ago was that no merges from driver
>> branch or tree are allowed towards DTS branch, even if they come only
>> with binding header change. There are exceptions for this, e.g. [1], but
>> that would mean we need to express here rules for cross-tree merges.
>
> I've got away with having an immutable branch for dt-binding headers!
> That said, Arnd did actually have a look at this (and suggested some
> changes) before I sent it & did not cry fowl about this section. IIRC,
> this is actually his wording, not mine.

Yes, I merge a lot of shared branches with dt-binding changes into the
soc/dt branch, and I wasn't aware of a policy against that, certainly did
not enforce it.

I generally object to changes touching drivers/* or anything else besides
arch/*/boot/dts, Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ and include/dt-bindings
in the dt branches, but I have made expections in the past when there
was a particular important reason.

    Arnd

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