Donate to e Foundation | Murena handsets with /e/OS | Own a part of Murena! Learn more

Commit 44acf105 authored by Rob Herring's avatar Rob Herring
Browse files

dt-bindings: submitting-patches: add guidance on patch content and subject 



Clarify that binding patches should also include include/dt-bindings/*
as part of them. The binding doc defines the ABI and the includes are
part of that. Add some details on the preferred subject prefix and
contents.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
parent 522811e9

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt

+8 −1
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ I. For patch submitters 
  0) Normal patch submission rules from Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

     applies.



  1) The Documentation/ portion of the patch should be a separate patch.

  1) The Documentation/ and include/dt-bindings/ portion of the patch should

     be a separate patch. The preferred subject prefix for binding patches is:



       "dt-bindings: <binding dir>: ..."



     The 80 characters of the subject are precious. It is recommended to not

     use "Documentation" or "doc" because that is implied. All bindings are

     docs. Repeating "binding" again should also be avoided.



  2) Submit the entire series to the devicetree mailinglist at