linux-kernel - Re: Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus

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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:22:03 +0200
From: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 02:46:55PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Hi Ioana,
> 
> Le 18/03/2025 à 11:40, Ioana Ciornei a écrit :
> > [Vous ne recevez pas souvent de courriers de ioana.ciornei@....com. D?couvrez pourquoi ceci est important ? https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ]
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As highlighted by the discussion in the following thread, the
> > maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus is not clear.
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Z9Lj9_yM1EK5pKee@gallifrey
> > 
> > The fsl-mc bus driver was first added to drivers/staging and because of
> > that, Greg was to one to pick up patches through his tree. Once it was
> > moved to drivers/bus/fsl-mc, patches on this driver were picked either
> > by Greg or by the Freescale SOC maintainer at that time - Li Yang.
> > 
> > Conceptually speaking, the fsl-mc bus driver is contributing to the same
> > infrastructure level as the SoC drivers maintained now by Christophe.
> > 
> > Christophe, would you be open to pick up patches for this bus driver
> > through your tree?
> 
> Yes its fine for me to take it via my soc fsl subtree unless Arnd tells
> different. But be aware that it will be purely administrative. I will have
> no mean to check whether any changes are actually working properly.

Of course, I will take care of review and testing.

> 
> In that case please add the following entry in MAINTAINERS:
> 
> L:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
> 
> 

Thank you,

Ioana