Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754724AbaJGQ6y (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2014 12:58:54 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:60018 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753242AbaJGQ6q (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2014 12:58:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 17:58:35 +0100 From: Mark Rutland To: Rob Landley Cc: Guenter Roeck , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "lguest@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-am33-list@redhat.com" , "linux-cris-kernel@axis.com" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-s390@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org" , "openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" , "user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org" , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-metag@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" , "linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-sh@vger.kernel.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/44] mfd: as3722: Drop reference to pm_power_off from devicetree bindings Message-ID: <20141007165835.GE27216@leverpostej> References: <1412659726-29957-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <1412659726-29957-6-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <543412F7.8040909@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <543412F7.8040909@landley.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:21:11PM +0100, Rob Landley wrote: > On 10/07/14 00:28, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > Devicetree bindings are supposed to be operating system independent > > and should thus not describe how a specific functionality is implemented > > in Linux. > > So your argument is that linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings should > not be specific to Linux. Merely hosted in the Linux kernel source > repository. Precisely. If nothing else as a general guideline this keeps us honest, and prevents us from embedding arbitrary implementation details into bidnings that cause pain later when we want to change things at either end. There are already otehr users of these bindings, so we can't really claim they're strictly Linux-specific anyhow. > Well that's certainly a point of view. As far as I am aware, it's the point of view shared by the device tree maintainers, and it's been that way for a while. I don't really follow your concern. For one thing were this followed more strictly this file wouldn't need patching at all to correct for this Linux-internal rework... Thanks, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/