Re: [PATCH 02/24] Documentation: DT bindings: add more chip compatible strings for Tegra PCIe

Paul Walmsley
2015-01-30T03:07:18Z

Hi Rob

I've also updated the first patch, that tries to document what the DT
maintainers' expectations are. Care to give this one a quick glance too?

- Paul

From: Paul Walmsley <pwalmsley@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:43:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: DT: document compatible string existence
requirement

DT maintainers require all compatible strings used in chip or board
DTS file to be previously documented somewhere in
Documentation/devicetree/bindings, per:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-tegra&m=142201349727836&w=2

Document this requirement in the DT patch submission requirements
text file.

This second version updates the documentation to align with
Rob's comments here:

http://marc.info/?l=devicetree&m=142255654213019&w=2

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pwalmsley@nvidia.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
.../devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt
index b7ba01ad1426..56742bc70218 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,29 @@ I. For patch submitters
3) The Documentation/ portion of the patch should come in the series before
the code implementing the binding.

+ 4) Any compatible strings used in a chip or board DTS file must be
+ previously documented in the corresponding DT binding text file
+ in Documentation/devicetree/bindings. This rule applies even if
+ the Linux device driver does not yet match on the compatible
+ string. [ checkpatch will emit warnings if this step is not
+ followed as of commit bff5da4335256513497cc8c79f9a9d1665e09864
+ ("checkpatch: add DT compatible string documentation checks"). ]
+
+ 5) The wildcard "<chip>" may be used in compatible strings, as in
+ the following example:
+
+ - compatible: Must contain '"nvidia,<chip>-pcie",
+ "nvidia,tegra20-pcie"' where <chip> is tegra30, tegra132, ...
+
+ As in the above example, the known values of "<chip>" should be
+ documented if it is used.
+
+ 6) If a documented compatible string is not yet matched by the
+ driver, the documentation should also include a compatible
+ string that is matched by the driver (as in the "nvidia,tegra20-pcie"
+ example above).
+
+
II. For kernel maintainers

1) If you aren't comfortable reviewing a given binding, reply to it and ask
--
2.1.4