New fsl device bindings file
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jul 4 04:38:17 EST 2008
On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Scott Wood
> <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm sure you'll hate for doing this, but I've asked Kim to create
>>> a new
>>> Documentation/powerpc/fsl-device-tree-bindings.txt as part of his
>>> SEC patch.
>>>
>>> I'm going to move all the Freescale SoC related bindings into this
>>> new
>>> file. One of the aspects of the new file is we will NOT having an
>>> ordinal
>>> heading index.
>
> Not at all. This is much needed. The current file is far to unwieldy
>
>>
>> How about splitting up like this:
>>
>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/fsl/cpm.txt
>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/fsl/cpm/uart.txt
>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/fsl/tsec.txt
>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/interrupts.txt
>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/dtb.txt
>
> May I suggest moving it to Documentation/of-bindings/ instead? Some
> of these bindings (granted, not the fsl ones) will be used by
> non-powerpc platforms (sparc, microblaze).
I think the powerpc bindings should still be under Docs/powerpc/of-
bindings/
It makes it cleaner in that each arch/sub-arch maintainer can maintain
Docs/<arch>/of-bindings and we can all vet changes to Docs/of-bindings
- k
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