ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 04:55:59PM +0200, Sebastian Frias wrote:

On 09/13/2016 03:12 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:

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Exactly, that is why I was thinking it would take less "review" time.
Indeed, if there is no driver, why would it matter what those bindings
are?

If you believe that the bindings don't matter, then there is absolutely
no reason for them to exist in the first place.

If those binding matter to *anyone*, then those collating the bindings
have some responsibility of stewardship, and that includes
review/maintenance/etc.

The thing is that right now it seems the "responsibility of stewardship"
lies only within "Linux", whereas DT is proposed as open for everybody,
Bootloaders, FreeBSD, etc.

In that case, shouldn't the "responsibility" be shared?

Ideally, yes.

Which is one of the reasons devicetree.org was set up as a common forum
for projects to collaborate on devicetree.

Thanks,
Mark.