Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: register-bit-led: Add active-low property

From: Pali Rohár
Date: Fri Aug 19 2022 - 04:42:33 EST


On Friday 19 August 2022 11:38:29 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 19/08/2022 11:08, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >>> Although the question is - where is the user of it?
> >>
> >> I was planning to send updated powerpc DTS files with these
> >> register-bit-led definitions after accepting dt bindings.
> >
> > We need device tree people to ack them, first. But a note saying "this
> > is for Turris Omnia router" would be welcome.
>
> In general the process is one of:
> 1. Send DT bindings with driver and DTS changes,
> 2. Send DT bindings with driver in one patchset, DTS in second but you
> mention the dependency.
>
> You should not wait with DTS till bindings got accepted. Why? Because
> for example we do not want bindings for stuff which never is going to be
> upstreamed (with several exceptions, e.g. for other systems). Also
> because we want to be able to compare bindings with your DTS
> implementing them, so we are sure you described everything (especially
> that you said running one command to install dtchema and second command
> to make the check is not possible in your system).
>
> Without DTS here how can anyone be sure your DTS actually follows the
> bindings?
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

Well, last time I was told that first needs to be accepted bindings
documentation and then device tree files. So I did it like this. And now
it is again feasible and different steps and ordering is needed...
Sorry I cannot known all requirements which are moreover changing every
day.