[PATCH 2/4 v3] dt/bindings: Add binding for BCM2835 mailbox driver

Lee Jones lee at kernel.org
Wed Mar 18 01:23:21 PDT 2015


On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Scott Branden wrote:
> On 15-03-17 10:27 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> >On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Eric Anholt wrote:
> >
> >>From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>
> >>Signed-off-by: Craig McGeachie <slapdau at yahoo.com.au>
> >>Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> >>---
> >>
> >>
> >>v2: Split into a separate patch for submitting to the devicetree list.
> >>     Consistently start node docs with a capital letter. device's
> >>     address in the example shouldn't have "0x". Drop machine-specific
> >>     interrupt numbers from the docs.  (changes by anholt).
> >>
> >>v3: Move the file to just bcm2835-mbox.txt, clean up formatting
> >>     (changes by anholt, from review by Lee Jones).
> >
> >Thanks for fixing up.
> >
> >>.../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/bcm2835-mbox.txt      | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> >>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/bcm2835-mbox.txt
> >
> >I don't see any unruliness or causes of controversy.
> >
> >Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> >
> >>diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/bcm2835-mbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/bcm2835-mbox.txt
> >>new file mode 100644
> >>index 0000000..0bb2b9d
> >>--- /dev/null
> >>+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/bcm2835-mbox.txt
> I am trying to standarize all broadcom device tree bindings in the
> format "brcm,binding.txt".
> 
> Could you please rename this file to brcm,bcm2835-mbox.txt for
> consistency in bindings?

The file name is governed by the maintainer of the subsystem you're
applying documentation for.  If this were an MFD submission, I would
not accept a the format matching the compatible string for instance.
I like consistency and commas in file names creeps me out.

This however, is Jassi's call.



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