Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752789AbbDFQbj (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2015 12:31:39 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f173.google.com ([209.85.223.173]:36045 "EHLO mail-ie0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751525AbbDFQbh (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2015 12:31:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [79.177.32.186] In-Reply-To: References: <1425076217-10415-1-git-send-email-bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com> From: Ohad Ben-Cohen Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 19:31:16 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] DT: hwspinlock: Add binding documentation for Qualcomm hwmutex To: Tim Bird Cc: Bjorn Andersson , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Suman Anna , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , Jeffrey Hugo , Andy Gross , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Kevin Hilman , Arnd Bergmann Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1681 Lines: 36 On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Tim Bird wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Tim Bird wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: >>>> Sorry, I can't take this without a DT ack. >>> >>> Hmmm. >>> >>> The policy seems to be: >>> "For driver (not subsystem) bindings: If you are comfortable with the >>> binding, and it hasn't received an Acked-by from the devicetree >>> maintainers after a few weeks, go ahead and take it." >>> >>> The syscon property is only relative to the qcom hwspinlock driver, >>> (unless I'm missing something) and both Qualcomm and Sony devs are >>> OK with it. So while an ACK from the DT side would be nice, I don't >>> think it's required. This is exactly the type of delay that is really >>> holding up a lot of out-of-tree code. >> >> Sorry, I do prefer to make sure Mark is OK with this devicetree patch, >> especially since it wasn't clear whether Mark is entirely comfortable >> with it in his last response. > > Just to be clear - do you personally have any objections to the patch? No, but this patch is for a folder I don't maintain so I prefer someone who does to take a look. Mark did take a look, and said he's confused by this patch (see this thread). Do you want me to ignore him and just send it to Linus anyway? -- 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/