Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] dt-bindings: Document common device controller bindings

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Thu Dec 22 2022 - 08:51:11 EST


On 22/12/2022 14:01, Gatien CHEVALLIER wrote:
>

>>
>> Anyway you duplicate work here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/c869d2751125181a55bc8a88c96e3a892b42f37a.1668070216.git.oleksii_moisieiev@xxxxxxxx/
>> and maybe you duplicate comments.
>>
>> I don't think there is point to review things twice, so NAK.
> This is a result of me not knowing how to handle this particular case.
> It is a patch that I need to have in my patch set in order to pass Rob's
> bindings check. Otherwise, feature domains bindings defined here will
> not be known in the STM32 System Bus binding file, where they are used.
>
> I wanted to illustrate the use of Oleksii's binding with a practical
> use-case that we want to implement.

Mention patch dependency in the path changelog (---) and that's it. No
tests will be done. You are expected to run tests anyway on your side,
before sending.

>
> What would be the correct way of managing this dependency?
> -Specify something like "On top of ...." in the cover letter/patch and
> reference the other thread?
> -Use a "Depends-On" tag on the YAML binding commit?
> -Something else?

Best regards,
Krzysztof