Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (ads1015) Add devicetree documentation

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:20:25PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Wolfram,
> 
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 12:51:51 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:16:45AM +0100, Dirk Eibach wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ads1015.txt |   15 +++++++++++++++
> > >  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ads1015.txt
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ads1015.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ads1015.txt
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..3a7d67a
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ads1015.txt
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> > > +ADS1015 (I2C)
> > > +
> > > +Optional properties:
> > > +
> > > + - exported-channels : exported_channels is a bitmask that specifies which
> > > +		       inputs should be exported to sysfs.
> > 
> > Hmm, device tree bindings should be OS-neutral, sysfs is not.
> 
> Why do we document this in the Linux kernel tree then?

Lack of a better place and process for documenting and reviewing
bindings.  I've been toying with moving device tree bindings out to
devicetree.org, but I don't have a good review model for that.  I
might end up splitting it out into a separate git repository.

g.