linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] MAINTAINERS: add Black Sesame Technologies (BST) ARM SoC support

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Message-ID: <20251015073014.1480709-1-yangzh0906@thundersoft.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:30:14 +0800
From: Albert Yang <yangzh0906@...ndersoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] MAINTAINERS: add Black Sesame Technologies (BST) ARM SoC support

Hi Adrian,

Thank you for the review and feedback!

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:29:25PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 23/09/2025 09:10, Albert Yang wrote:

> > +ARM/BST SOC SUPPORT
> > +M: Ge Gordon <gordon.ge@....ai>
> > +R: BST Linux Kernel Upstream Group <bst-upstream@...ai.top>
> > +L: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> > +S: Maintained
>
> Seems like it is "Supported" rather than "Maintained" ?
>
>         S: *Status*, one of the following:
>            Supported:   Someone is actually paid to look after this.
>            Maintained:  Someone actually looks after it.
>            Odd Fixes:   It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
>                         much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
>            Orphan:      No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
>                         role as you write your new code].
>            Obsolete:    Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
>                         it has been replaced by a better system and you
>                         should be using that.> The status should likely be "Supported" rather than "Maintained"
> based on the MAINTAINERS guidelines.

You're absolutely right. "Supported" is more appropriate for this
vendor-supported hardware. I will update the STATUS field to
"Supported" in next of the patch series.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Best regards,
Albert Yang