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

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 09:56 -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?

The biggest thing is that it should describe the *hardware*, in a
fashion which is completely OS-agnostic.

The same device-tree binding should work for Solaris, *BSD, Windows,
eCos, and everything else.

I've heard tales of people having to keep device-tree files for their
board tightly in sync with the specific *version* of the Linux kernel
that they were shipped with.

That makes me very sad, because it almost certainly means that someone
has done it completely and utterly wrong.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation



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