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Message-ID: <175252815430.3190487.8753988814119846022.robh@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:22:45 -0500
From: "Rob Herring (Arm)" <robh@...nel.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Cc: devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] docs: dt: writing-bindings: Document compatible
and filename naming
On Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:46:37 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Document established Devicetree bindings maintainers review practices:
>
> 1. Compatibles should not use bus suffixes to encode the type of
> interface, because the parent bus node defines that interface, e.g.
> "vendor,device" instead of "vendor,device-i2c" + "vendor,device-spi".
>
> 2. If the compatible represents the device as a whole, it should not
> contain the type of device in the name.
>
> 3. Filenames should match compatible. The best if match is 100%, but if
> binding has multiple compatibles, then one of the fallbacks should be
> used. Alternatively a genericish name is allowed if it follows
> "vendor,device" style.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> 1. New patch
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/writing-bindings.rst | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
Applied, thanks!
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