[PATCH v2 03/10] Documentation/dts: Add bindings for QIXIS FPGA controller found on FSL boards

[Sharma Bhupesh]

> From: pku.leo at gmail.com [mailto:pku.leo at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2015 2:43 AM
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Sharma Bhupesh
> <bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com> wrote:
> >> From: pku.leo at gmail.com [mailto:pku.leo at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 10:27 PM On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:57
> >> AM, Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com> wrote:
> >> > This patch adds bindings for QIXIS FPGA controller found on FSL
> boards.
> >>
> >> A general comment: when you are updating the device tree bindings.
> >> You should cc the devicetree at vger.kernel.org mailing list.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Some Freescale boards like LS2080AQDS/LS2080ARDB have an on-board
> >> > FPGA/CPLD connected to the IFC controller. The bindings specified
> >> > in this patch cater to those on-board FPGA/CPLD controllers.
> >>
> >> We already have the binding defined in
> >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/board.txt.  We probably
> >> should just move it to a more generic location.
> >
> > Consolidation of powerpc and ARM bindings is something that needs to
> > be targeted by a separate patch-series, perhaps in future.
> >
> > There are a number of duplications that can be looked into, but I
> > don't think this patchset should depend on that.
> 
> There might be some duplication, but we shouldn't be adding more.  :) I
> would rather you directly updating that file than creating a new file
> even though the original one was in a wrong directory.
> 

IMO a PowerPC binding update makes no sense in a ARM machine patchset sent
on a arm specific mailing list.

I would like to wait to hear what maintainers have to say on the same.

Regards,
Bhupesh