[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] Handling of devicetree bindings

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 06:06:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:56:20AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > How about a hint for subsystem maintainers as to what exactly we should
> > be looking for with these bindings?  I for one have no idea what is
> > "right" vs. "wrong" with them, so a document explaining this would be
> > good to have.
> 
> > Or if we already have it, a pointer to it perhaps?
> 
> At the minute it's about at the level of saying that if you're not sure
> or don't know you should get the devicetree-discuss mailing list to
> review it.  Ideally someone would write that document, though I wouldn't
> hold my breath and there is a bunch of convention involved.

So, what should I, as a subsystem maintainer, do if I get a patch with a
binding in it?  Wait some random amount of time before I can just apply
it because no one on the mailing list said anything about it?  Trust the
developer who wrote it?  Or just reject them all?

What do you advise?

thanks,

greg k-h