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

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Message-ID: <CAOZdJXVjsR3NTWiJX33yT3jYk=FU65raWoMooTLD7OMN3sqP-A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:36:11 -0500
From:   Timur Tabi <timur@...i.org>
To:     Sebastian Frias <sf84@...oste.net>
Cc:     devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Mason <slash.tmp@...e.fr>
Subject: Re: ARM,SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Sebastian Frias <sf84@...oste.net> wrote:
>
> If this is really not possible, it forces the SoC manufacturer to expose
> those properties in a different way, thus wasting a (seemingly) perfectly
> fine way of doing so: the DT and its documentation.

When you submit a new driver upstream, that patch also includes the
new device tree nodes and documentation for those nodes.  Everything
is peer-reviewed together.  I don't understand what you think the
problem is.