Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Devicetree Workshop at Kernel Summit Prague (26 Oct 2017)

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 06:35:24PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:

I'd like to add something on the topic of non-Linux projects. In this
case it's diverging DT bindings from U-boot:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/823158/

U-boot already has a set of devicetree binding additions:
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/tree/master/doc/device-tree-bindings

The patch in question wants to ab(use) the regulator-name property for
driver instance binding. In my opinion this is not going to fly, as
boards are free to define the names. This either sees no use other than
as a dirty workaround for dts files that aren't following the PMIC
regulator bindings (regulator node names should follow well defined,
identifying names), or results in divergence of the DT files.

One meta issue I'm seeing here is that the u-boot people appear to have
their own divergent copy of some of the binding documents.