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

[Li Yang]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Sharma Bhupesh
<bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com> wrote:
>> 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.

So the best approach is to merge the change with the original binding
and put it into a common place.  Although there were a lot of non-arch
specific bindings placed into the arch folder, we should stop adding
more now.

Regards,
Leo