New fsl device bindings file

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Sat Jul 5 15:24:56 EST 2008


On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Grant Likely wrote:

>> 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).

Good idea, but:

Don't call the bindings OF. They're not.

They are a linux-specific binding that happens to use the same data  
structures and representation that OF does.

Call them dts-bindings or something else, just to avoid confusion.


-Olof




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