Re: [RFC 2/2] MAINTAINERS: add a limited ARM and ARM64 SoC entry

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 16:21:27 EST


On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 11:15:16PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> It is expected for ARM and ARM64 SoC related code to go through
> sub-architecture maintainers. Their addresses were therefore not

I reshaped my message last moment and missed that it does not make
sense anymore... It should be:
"The ARM and ARM64 SoC maintainers addresses were therefore not..."

Best regards,
Krzysztof

> documented to push patch traffic through sub-architecture maintainers.
>
> However when patches touch generic code, e.g. multi_v7_defconfig, the
> patch might not be picked up by them and instead should go to the SoC
> maintainers - Arnd and Olof.
>
> Add a minimal maintainer's entry for SoC covering only Makefile, so it
> will not appear on most of submissions (except new devicetree boards).
> It will though serve as a documentation and reference for cases when
> submitter does not know where to send his SoC-related patches.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 6149066a545e..f302983645bd 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1491,6 +1491,16 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu*
> F: drivers/iommu/arm/
> F: drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm*
>
> +ARM AND ARM64 SoC SUB-ARCHITECTURES (COMMON PARTS)
> +M: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> +M: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> +M: soc@xxxxxxxxxx
> +L: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
> +S: Maintained
> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git
> +F: arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile
> +F: arch/arm64/boot/dts/Makefile
> +
> ARM SUB-ARCHITECTURES
> L: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
> S: Maintained
> --
> 2.25.1
>