From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from db8outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com (mail-db8lp0187.outbound.messaging.microsoft.com [213.199.154.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.global.frontbridge.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9A252C0337 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:47:39 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <1380159992.24959.248.camel@snotra.buserror.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] DMA: Freescale: Add new 8-channel DMA engine device tree nodes From: Scott Wood To: Hongbo Zhang Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:46:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <52429252.10009@freescale.com> References: <1379499333-4745-1-git-send-email-hongbo.zhang@freescale.com> <1379499333-4745-3-git-send-email-hongbo.zhang@freescale.com> <524074A7.7000001@wwwdotorg.org> <524169E3.7030408@freescale.com> <5241CC60.5070204@wwwdotorg.org> <52429252.10009@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, ian.campbell@citrix.com, pawel.moll@arm.com, Stephen Warren , vinod.koul@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com, djbw@fb.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 15:35 +0800, Hongbo Zhang wrote: > By the way, I know maybe it is difficult, but why not introduce a > document of maintaining rules for the dt binding docs? we have dedicated > maintainers for this part now. Description language from one submitter > cannot satisfy every reviewer/maintainer, for a reg property, is it > necessary to say "offset and length", Don't say "offset and length". It's both redundant with the base definition of the reg property, and overly specific because it makes assumptions about how the parent node's ranges are set up (sometimes we want to be that specific, but usually not). > to say "how many entries", to say "register functions and even names"? If there's more than one entry/resource/whatever-we-decide-to-call-it-but-let's-pick-something-canonical, then say how many there are and what each one means. -Scott