linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] DT: hwspinlock: Add binding documentation for Qualcomm hwmutex

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Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 2015 19:31:16 +0300
From:	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
To:	Tim Bird <tbird20d@...il.com>
Cc:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>, Suman Anna <s-anna@...com>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] DT: hwspinlock: Add binding documentation for
 Qualcomm hwmutex

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Tim Bird <tbird20d@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Tim Bird <tbird20d@...il.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com> wrote:
>>>> Sorry, I can't take this without a DT ack.
>>>
>>> Hmmm.
>>>
>>> The policy seems to be:
>>>      "For driver (not subsystem) bindings: If you are comfortable with the
>>>      binding, and it hasn't received an Acked-by from the devicetree
>>>      maintainers after a few weeks, go ahead and take it."
>>>
>>> The syscon property is only relative to the qcom hwspinlock driver,
>>> (unless I'm missing something) and both Qualcomm and Sony devs are
>>> OK with it.  So while an ACK from the DT side would be nice, I don't
>>> think it's required.  This is exactly the type of delay that is really
>>> holding up a lot of out-of-tree code.
>>
>> Sorry, I do prefer to make sure Mark is OK with this devicetree patch,
>> especially since it wasn't clear whether Mark is entirely comfortable
>> with it in his last response.
>
> Just to be clear - do you personally have any objections to the patch?

No, but this patch is for a folder I don't maintain so I prefer
someone who does to take a look.

Mark did take a look, and said he's confused by this patch (see this thread).

Do you want me to ignore him and just send it to Linus anyway?
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