[PATCH v2] dt-bindings: mailbox: Delete old 'mailbox.txt' bindings file

Rob Herring (Arm) robh at kernel.org
Thu Sep 17 12:04:06 PDT 2026


On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:46:12 -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> As per mailing-list discussions [1] [2] [3], we want to delete the
> following old file from the device-tree bindings that live in the
> Linux kernel git tree:
> * Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt
> 
> The old .txt file did have some descriptive text about what some of
> the properties meant. Those have been added to the dt-schema
> repository in a pull request [4].
> 
> Also remove dangling references to `mailbox.txt` across all remaining
> device-tree binding documentation files.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260722140214.GA548057-robh@kernel.org [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dc7a2041-50a4-482e-9930-566bb3fd1e72@kernel.org [2]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAL_JsqKVjQ2m-dzMUENQry-f_YE9QrYSOKoH9CPj1gjj8XkPRA@mail.gmail.com [3]
> Link: https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/202 [4]
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at kernel.org>
> Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
> - v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260804133801.1.I8b3ff71c528133e7d6f81fe926fa39e6451d63fd@changeid
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove dangling mailbox.txt references as per Sashiko.
> 
>  .../firmware/nvidia,tegra186-bpmp.yaml        |  6 +-
>  .../mailbox/allwinner,sun6i-a31-msgbox.yaml   |  3 -
>  .../bindings/mailbox/altera-mailbox.txt       | 12 ++--
>  .../mailbox/hisilicon,hi3660-mailbox.txt      |  2 +-
>  .../mailbox/hisilicon,hi6220-mailbox.txt      |  2 +-
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt   | 60 -------------------
>  .../bindings/mailbox/ti,omap-mailbox.yaml     |  3 +-
>  .../power/reset/xlnx,zynqmp-power.yaml        |  9 +--
>  .../bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,aoss-qmp.yaml      |  2 +-
>  9 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt
> 

Applied, thanks!




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