Re: [PATCH 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Refactor device tree maintainership

[Olof Johansson]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Device tree bindings require a lot more attention than they used to.
> We've got a group of volunteers willing to take over maintaining
> bindings. This patch adds them to the MAINTAINERS file.
>
> This group still needs to work out a process for maintainership and how
> they are going to work together. I recommend that they set up a shared
> tree on git.kernel.org that they each have commit access to similar to
> the tip tree or the arm-soc tree, but it is up to them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devicetree-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index bc286e4..12c95d5 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6050,13 +6050,24 @@ L:      devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  W:     http://fdt.secretlab.ca
>  T:     git git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6.git
>  S:     Maintained
> -F:     Documentation/devicetree
>  F:     drivers/of
>  F:     include/linux/of*.h
>  F:     scripts/dtc
>  K:     of_get_property
>  K:     of_match_table
>
> +OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS
> +M:     Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx>
> +M:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> +M:     Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:     Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +L:     devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +S:     Maintained
> +F:     Documentation/devicetree
> +F:     arch/*/boot/dts
> +F:     arch/*/

This seems a bit broad. Someone is going to get a whole lot of email
if this goes in, and it might confuse contributors on who is
maintainer of what under arch.


-Olof
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