Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?

Kyle Spaans (CSC) kspaans at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jul 24 20:57:29 EDT 2013


2013/7/24 Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Domenico Andreoli <cavokz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:27:13AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>> Every now and then I come across a binding that's just done Wrong(tm),
>>> merged through a submaintainer tree and hasn't seen proper review --
>>> if it had, it wouldn't look the way it does. It's something we're
>>> starting to address now since there's more people stepping up to be
>>> maintainers, but there's a backlog of bad bindings already merged.
>>
>> Where is this backlog?
>
> There is no list of them, if that is what you are asking for. If
> people are interested in cleaning them up one could be started. Which
> is why I was gauging interest.

I'm a new contributor, but I'm interesting in helping with the
janitorial work. I need to learn more about device trees to help get
support for a board I'm working with (Freescale iMX6q SD) into
mainline.



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