linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: document dtbs

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:46:20 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        soc@...nel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: document
 dtbs_check requirement for Samsung

On 12/07/2023 11:48, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:41:31AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> Samsung ARM/ARM64 SoCs (except legacy S5PV210) are also expected not to
>> bring any new dtbs_check warnings.  In fact this have been already
>> enforced and tested since few release.
>>
>> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
>>
>> ---
> 
>> Not sure where to document this. Creating new maintainer profile for
>> Samsung SoC would be an overkill. OTOH, more SoCs might want to grow
>> this list, so this also scales poor.
> 
> To me, this portion of the document was "information to the
> submaintainer", which would be you, not information to the contributors
> to the platform. Adding the comment about Samsung SoC seems aimed at
> contributors?

Yes, I want to document it for contributors, so they won't be surprised.
Any hints where to store it? I could put it in the "About" tab of my
kernel.org repo, but no one checks this for contribution guidelines.

Best regards,
Krzysztof