linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Sitronix ST7920 driver

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Message-ID: <87y0qyfh21.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:17:26 +0200
From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc: Iker Pedrosa <ikerpedrosam@...il.com>, Maarten Lankhorst
 <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Thomas Zimmermann
 <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter
 <simona@...ll.ch>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski
 <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Sitronix ST7920 driver

Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org> writes:

Hello Maxime,

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 03:10:16PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 20/08/2025 14:23, Iker Pedrosa wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> +DRM DRIVER FOR SITRONIX ST7920 LCD DISPLAYS
>> >>> +M:   Iker Pedrosa <ikerpedrosam@...il.com>
>> >>> +S:   Maintained
>> >>> +T:   git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Drop, unless you have commit rights there. Parent entry already covers
>> >> this, doesn't it?
>> >>
>> > 
>> > I don't have them, but I'm working with Javier and I think he does have
>> > permissions. Let me ask him when he gets back.
>> 
>> Javier is not mentioned here. You are adding redundant and useless
>> information. T: is for subsystem maintainers, not for individual drivers.
>
> Kinda. I mean, you're absolutely right for pretty that it's implicit in
> most places in the kernel.
>
> However, it's not here. The drm-misc tree is meant to collect the
> patches for all those small drivers, and we don't have a folder to put
> these drivers under.
>
> It was pretty confusing to differentiate a driver maintained through its
> own tree, and one maintained through drm-misc, so at least explicitly
> having the git tree set to drm-misc is how we show that's where the
> patches are going to land.
>

Thanks a lot for the clarification.

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat