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

Jassi Brar jassisinghbrar at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 01:40:51 PDT 2015


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Lee Jones <lee at kernel.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
I don't really have a strong opinion here. I tend to respect Broadcom
platforms' convention of using "brcm,binding.txt"



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