[PATCH] [v8, 1/2] dt-bindings: panel: Add Boe Himax8279d is 1200x1920, 4-lane MIPI-DSI LCD panel

[Emil Velikov]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 15:29, Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Emil.
>
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > patch applied to drm-misc-next and will be pushed out soon.
> > >
> > Isn't an ack/rb from a DT maintainer a requirement before being picked
> > via the DRM trees?
> > It used to be a thing, although it could have changed recently.
> I got OK via irc to take some simple panel bindings patches.
> Which explains the lack of a-b or r-b on this patch from any DT folks.
>
> So I processed what was in queue.
> Maybe the OK was only for a smaller set of patches but I did process
> only panel-bindings that I was ready to add my r-b on.
>
Fair enough. I've seen people add the "ok" in the commit itself and
the line ending with "# over IRC" or alike.

> >
> > AFAICT there are no users for this binding, yet I'm not sure if that
> > is a requirement.
> To my best knowledge a kernel user is not a requirement.
> In this case there is a patch in-the-works and I considered to
> wait until the patch was ready. But decided to process the DT-binding
> as the binding is a prerequisite for the panel driver,
> but not the other way around. Again to my understanding.
>
> So everything was done to avoid having panel patches hanging in
> dri-devel for excessive amount of time.
> One could say that this was already the case that they had waited for
> too long.
>
> Another - not so obvious thing . was that having all patches in
> drm-misc-next allows us to have an easier time migrating all panel
> patches to yaml which I hope will take place in the next month or two.
> I am waiting for the inital patch-set by Rob to land, and then there
> is some janitorial job to migrate remainign panel bindings to yaml.
> This is easier to do with everyting in drm-misc-next rather than asking
> several different persons to do it.
> Once done there will be lot of examples to work from, so for new panel
> bindings it should be easier.
>
Ooh shiny. Thanks Sam.

-Emil
P.S. From a non-native speaker to another, spell check FTW.