Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Add Purism Librem 5 section to the list

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Sun Aug 30 2020 - 21:19:19 EST


On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 08:32:01AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 21:15 +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 02:17:54PM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> > > Add development information for the devicetree files for hardware
> > > by Purism SPC.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > I decided to drop this patch from my queue, as I took the suggestion
> > from Joe and sent a patch to have get_maintainer report email address
> > in the dts file.
>
> It's OK to find maintainers in files, but what about the
> B: bug reporting and T: source code repository location lines,
>
> Those seem useful.

Hmm, I doubt they are practically useful for just a number of dts files.
They are more used for out-of-tree Librem5 kernel drivers, I guess.

Shawn

>
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> []
> > > @@ -14061,6 +14061,13 @@ T: git git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git
> > > F: Documentation/admin-guide/media/pulse8-cec.rst
> > > F: drivers/media/cec/usb/pulse8/
> > >
> > > +PURISM LIBREM 5
> > > +M: Purism Kernel Team <kernel@xxxxxxx>
>
> People feel like their mails go into a void when no
> responses happen after sending to nameless addresses.
>
> It's better to have a named individual as a maintainer
> rather than an unspecified exploder address.
>
> It's OK to have both, but just the exploder doesn't
> really have that much value as it's faceless.
>
> > > +S: Supported
> > > +B: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/issues
> > > +T: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next
>
> This T: line should be something else.
>
> Perhaps
> W; https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next
> T: git https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next.git
>
> > > +F: arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq-librem5*
>
>