Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:47:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Subject: Re: The future of DT binding maintainership
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Grant Likely wrote:

> I wouldn't get to hung up about trying to reuse the same file format as
> the .dts files. Most of the bindings are going to be very flat in
> nature, and schemas need to be expresive in a different way from the
> .dts files themselves.
>
> We'll want to have an easy way to define trivial bindings. There are a
> lot of devices that only define a new 'compatible' string, but they
> don't actually require anything more than reg and interrupts. Can we
> maybe have a schema file that lists trivial bindings?

It sounds like a log of the bindings will really consist of something similar to 
"take this other binding definition and change these values"

I think that figuring out a good way to handle this (and make sure that when 
people change one binding, they can know what other bindings they are changing 
through the dependancies) is at least as important as figuring out the formal 
schemas and multiple inheritance issues.

David Lang
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