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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