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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:19:12 +0100
From: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
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,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: clarify
submitting patches
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 03:08:31PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Most of these submaintainers have their own trees where they stage patches,
> sending pull requests to the main SoC tree. These trees are usually, but not
> -always, listed in MAINTAINERS. The main SoC maintainers can be reached via the
> -alias soc@...nel.org if there is no platform-specific maintainer, or if they
> -are unresponsive.
> +always, listed in MAINTAINERS.
I probably had some specific case in mind with that original wording. I
presume it still holds true for some smaller platforms, but I cannot
remember the specific case that prompted it. I'll have to see if I can
figure out which platforms they are (if any) and get the tree added.
Cheers,
Conor.
> What the SoC tree is not, however, is a location for architecture-specific code
> changes. Each architecture has its own maintainers that are responsible for
> architectural details, CPU errata and the like.
>
> +Submitting Patches for Given SoC
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +All usual platform related patches should be sent via SoC submaintainers
> +(platform-specific maintainers. This includes also changes to per-platform or
^ this is unclosed.
> +shared defconfigs (scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide correct
> +addresses in such case).
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