Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: dt: submitting-patches: Document sending DTS patches

Rob Herring
2025-02-26T15:44:43Z

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 07:48:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Document two rules already widely used and enforced by DT maintainers
> and SoC platform maintainers:
>
> 1. DTS patches should be placed at the end of driver patchset to
> indicate no dependencies of driver code on DTS.
>
> 2. DTS patches should be applied via SoC platform maintainers, because
> it is a driver-independent hardware description. However some
> driver maintainers are reluctant to pick up portions of patchsets and
> prefer to take entire set at once. For such cases, the DTS portion
> should be split into separate patchset, so it will not end up in the
> driver subsystem integration tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> ---
> .../bindings/submitting-patches.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I've applied both patches.

Rob