linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] AHCI and SATA PHY support for Broadcom STB SoCs

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Message-ID: <20150521223825.GA27753@ld-irv-0074>
Date:	Thu, 21 May 2015 15:38:25 -0700
From:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@...il.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] AHCI and SATA PHY support for Broadcom STB SoCs

I can explain part of this, but I'm curious if anyone else has different
info.

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> But the rules have never been clear to me.  If the subsystem
> maintainer is okay with it, I'm happy to take the patches.  I'm just
> kinda curious why this doesn't go through devicetree tree while some
> other devicetree patches go through there.

AFAIK, there is no official tree for device tree bindings. There's just
a mailing list and several reviewers, who usually try to help on the big
picture binding review. Note that there's no tree listed in MAINTAINERS
under:

  OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS

But you will see several MAINTAINERS entries for different subdirs of
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/. Maybe you should add one for .../ata
if you're going to continue taking patches?

It's possible you're confusing binding documentation with .dts source
files? The DTS files (arch/*/boot/dts/) go through arch trees. For
instance, the arm-soc maintainers have a structured process by which
sub-architecture maintainers track .dts(i) file updates for their
boards/chips and filter them up to Arnd, Olof, etc., via their separate
'dts' branches. That's why Florian took patch 5 to his tree.

> Can somebody explain the
> overall policy to me?  I'm not looking for some absolute rules and
> exceptions are fine but I do wanna have a general direction.

Brian
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