On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 11:05 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Devicetree bindings should be their own patch as documented in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt section I.1.
> This is because bindings are logically independent from a driver
> implementation, they have a different maintainer (even though they often
> are applied via the same tree), and it makes for a cleaner history in
> the DT only tree created with git-filter-branch.
>
> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2:
> - Add doc pointer to warning
> - Simplify logic
>
> Joe, this makes $is_binding_patch an empty value when the regex doesn't
> match rather than 0 which would be more logical IMO. It seems to work
> fine, but I'm not sure if there's a better way to do it.
Hi Rob. This looks fine with a couple nits.
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index a9c05506e325..f9aba4bc41ce 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2236,6 +2236,7 @@ sub process {
> our $clean = 1;
> my $signoff = 0;
> my $is_patch = 0;
> + my $is_binding_patch = -1;
> my $in_header_lines = $file ? 0 : 1;
> my $in_commit_log = 0; #Scanning lines before patch
> my $has_commit_log = 0; #Encountered lines before patch
> @@ -2485,6 +2486,19 @@ sub process {
> $check = $check_orig;
> }
> $checklicenseline = 1;
> +
> + if ($realfile !~ /^MAINTAINERS/) {
> + my $last_binding_patch = $is_binding_patch;
> +
> + $is_binding_patch = ($realfile =~
> m@^(?:Documentation/devicetree/|include/dt-bindings/)@);
If you want 0/1 you could use:
$is_binding_patch = () = $realfile =~
m@^(?:Documentation/devicetree/|include/dt-bindings/)@;
(perl syntax is a constant joy)
> +
> + if (($last_binding_patch != -1) &&
> + ($last_binding_patch ^ $is_binding_patch)) {
> + WARN("DT_SPLIT_BINDING_PATCH",
> + "DT binding docs and includes
> should be a separate patch. See:
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt");
This is missing a '\n' newline at the end of the message.
> + }
> + }
> +
> next;
> }
>
