Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | [PATCH] docs: dt: submitting-patches: Add note about other project usage | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:24:19 -0400 |
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In an attempt to make it more broadly known that other projects are equal consumers / users of the device tree bindings, add a note to submitting patches to say that extra care and consideration may need to be taken when updating existing bindings.
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst index 8087780f1685..36a17b250ccc 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ I. For patch submitters string that is matched by the driver (as in the "nvidia,tegra20-pcie" example above). + 9) Bindings are actively used by multiple projects other than the Linux + Kernel, extra care and consideration may need to be taken when making changes + to existing bindings. II. For kernel maintainers ========================== -- 2.17.1
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