Re: [PATCH] Documentation: riscv: add patch acceptance guidelines

[Paul Walmsley]

Hi Jon,

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:44:39 -0800 (PST) Paul Walmsley 
> <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Formalize, in kernel documentation, the patch acceptance policy for 
> > arch/riscv.  In summary, it states that as maintainers, we plan to only 
> > accept patches for new modules or extensions that have been frozen or 
> > ratified by the RISC-V Foundation.
> > 
> > We've been following these guidelines for the past few months.  In the
> > meantime, we've received quite a bit of feedback that it would be
> > helpful to have these guidelines formally documented.
> 
> If at all possible, I would really love to have this be part of the
> maintainer profile documentation:
> 
> 	https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/156821692280.2951081.18036584954940423225.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> ...if we could only (hint...CC'd...) get Dan to resubmit it with the
> needed tweaks so it could be merged...

It looks like the main thing that would be needed would be to add the P: 
entry with the path to our patch-acceptance.rst file into the MAINTAINERS 
file, after Dan's patches are merged. 

Of course, we could also add more information about sparse cleanliness, 
checkpatch warnings, etc., but we mostly try to follow the common kernel 
guidelines there.

Is that summary accurate, or did I miss some additional steps?


- Paul