Commit c9dcc63e authored by Tom Rini's avatar Tom Rini Committed by Rob Herring
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docs: dt: submitting-patches: Add note about other project usage 



In an attempt to make it more broadly known that other projects are
equal consumers / users of the device tree bindings, add a note to
submitting patches to say that extra care and consideration may need to
be taken when updating existing bindings.

Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210910142419.5237-1-trini@konsulko.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
parent f46428f0

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst

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@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ I. For patch submitters 
     string that is matched by the driver (as in the "nvidia,tegra20-pcie"

     example above).



  9) Bindings are actively used by multiple projects other than the Linux

     Kernel, extra care and consideration may need to be taken when making changes

     to existing bindings.



II. For kernel maintainers

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