linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] cdx: MAINTAINERS: Explicitly mention Greg who handles patches

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Message-ID: <86cd570d-416a-49ab-84e3-6bf54873f8eb@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 08:27:52 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@....com>, Nikhil Agarwal
 <nikhil.agarwal@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] cdx: MAINTAINERS: Explicitly mention Greg who
 handles patches

On 01/05/2025 18:06, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 01/05/2025 17:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 08:41:34PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> Patches for CDX bus drivers are applied by Greg Kroah-Hartman, so list
>>> him in the maintainers entry because otherwise contributors would be
>>> surprised their patches got lost.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
>>> ---
>>>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>> index b2c3be5f6131432647dd01f22bbf4bf1c8bde9e6..505d7d45ad7d1c007e89a555264ff8cbeaf6e1f4 100644
>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>> @@ -1008,6 +1008,7 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/w1/amd,axi-1wire-host.yaml
>>>  F:	drivers/w1/masters/amd_axi_w1.c
>>>  
>>>  AMD CDX BUS DRIVER
>>> +M:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>>
>> Sorry, but no, I'm not the maintainer of this driver.  It's up to the
>> maintainer(s) of it to send me the patches on to be merged, it is not up
>> to me to maintain the code at all.
>>
> Sure, I understand. I  will send a v3 without maintainers patch and I
> assume the maintainers will pick them up (unless drivers are orphaned).


And now I found this:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/929198a2-6b3b-0f1b-3f36-cd8955ca6f19@amd.com/

"We do not maintain a tree and  patches go via Greg's tree."

which means that patches won't be picked up. Your email does not pop up
on b4/get_maintainers. Overall this means cdx driver might be abandoned,
from contributors point of view.

If that's the case I will send a patch making this orphaned.

More patches which never received any attention or were not picked up:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250118070833.27201-1-chenqiuji666@gmail.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241203084409.2747897-1-abhijit.gangurde@amd.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250425133929.646493-2-robin.murphy@arm.com/


Best regards,
Krzysztof