dt/bindings: submitting patches and ABI documents

Add some guidance documentation about what to do with device tree
bindings and how ABI stability is to be handled.

Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
[grant.likely: added some clarification on subsystem binding rules]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>

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+  Submitting devicetree (DT) binding patches
+
+I. For patch submitters
+
+  0) Normal patch submission rules from Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+     applies.
+
+  1) The Documentation/ portion of the patch should be a separate patch.
+
+  2) Submit the entire series to the devicetree mailinglist at
+
+       devicetree@vger.kernel.org
+
+II. For kernel maintainers
+
+  1) If you aren't comfortable reviewing a given binding, reply to it and ask
+     the devicetree maintainers for guidance.  This will help them prioritize
+     which ones to review and which ones are ok to let go.
+
+  2) For driver (not subsystem) bindings: If you are comfortable with the
+     binding, and it hasn't received an Acked-by from the devicetree
+     maintainers after a few weeks, go ahead and take it.
+
+     Subsystem bindings (anything affecting more than a single device)
+     then getting a devicetree maintainer to review it is required.
+
+  3) For a series going though multiple trees, the binding patch should be
+     kept with the driver using the binding.
+
+III. Notes
+
+  0) Please see ...bindings/ABI.txt for details regarding devicetree ABI.
+
+  1) This document is intended as a general familiarization with the process as
+     decided at the 2013 Kernel Summit.  When in doubt, the current word of the
+     devicetree maintainers overrules this document.  In that situation, a patch
+     updating this document would be appreciated.