On 31/05/2023 08:30, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

quoted

+appropriate time later.  Most importantly, any incompatible changes should be
+clearly pointed out in the patch description and pull request, along with the
+expected impact on existing users, such as bootloaders or other operating
+systems.
+
+Driver Branch Dependencies
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A common problem is synchronizing changes between device drivers and devicetree
+files, even if a change is compatible in both directions, this may require
+coordinating how the changes get merged through different maintainer trees.
+
+Usually the branch that includes a driver change will also include the
+corresponding change to the devicetree binding description, to ensure they are
+in fact compatible.  This means that the devicetree branch can end up causing
+warnings in the "make dtbs_check" step.  If a devicetree change depends on
+missing additions to a header file in include/dt-bindings/, it will fail the
+"make dtbs" step and not get merged.

Sounds like passing `make dtbs` is a merging requirement.

And why shouldn't be?

Best regards,
Krzysztof


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