Re: [v8, 6/7] MAINTAINERS: add entry for Freescale SoC specific driver

[Leo Li]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Scott and Leo,
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-mmc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-mmc-
>> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Wood
>> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 7:23 AM
>> To: Yangbo Lu; linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>> linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx; Zhao Qiang; Russell King; Bhupesh Sharma;
>> Scott Wood; Claudiu Manoil; Kumar Gala; Yang-Leo Li; Xiaobo Xie; Michael
>> Ellerman
>> Subject: Re: [v8, 6/7] MAINTAINERS: add entry for Freescale SoC specific
>> driver
>>
>> On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 14:27 +0800, Yangbo Lu wrote:
>> > Add maintainer entry for Freescale SoC specific driver including the
>> > QE library and the GUTS driver. Also add entry for GUTS driver and add
>> > maintainer for QE library.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > Changes for v8:
>> >     - Added this patch
>> > ---
>> >  MAINTAINERS | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 1d5b4be..d20aeb6 100644
>> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> > @@ -4622,13 +4622,27 @@ F:  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_ptp.c
>> >  F: drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.h
>> >  F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl-fec.txt
>> >
>> > +FREESCALE SOC SPECIFIC DRIVER
>>
>> FREESCALE SOC DRIVERS
>
> [Lu Yangbo-B47093] Ok, will change it to 'FREESCALE SOC DRIVERS'.
>
>>
>> > +M: Scott Wood <oss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Please CC me at this address, not the NXP address that you sent this to...
>
> [Lu Yangbo-B47093] Sorry for mistaking your email. Will send the one you said.
>
>>
>> > +L: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > +S: Maintained
>> > +F: drivers/soc/fsl/
>> > +F: include/linux/fsl/
>>
>> This directory will contain drivers that work on PPC and ARM... I'm not
>> sure what to put here in terms of mailing lists (we could put both, but
>> people probably shouldn't spam both lists if only one arch is relevant to
>> the patch), and whom to make pull requests to.
>
> [Lu Yangbo-B47093] But sooner or later we need to do this for files in fsl/ ...
> :)
>
> Hi Leo, do you have any idea?

I think it would be ok to put both linuxppc and linux-arm mailing
lists here.  Driver doesn't fall into any of the functional based
sub-systems would very likely be platform stuff.  And if patch author
has the knowledge that a patch only impacts one arch, he can remove
the other list to reduce the spam.

>
>
>>
>> > +FREESCALE GUTS DRIVER
>> > +M: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx>
>> > +L: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > +S: Maintained
>> > +F: drivers/soc/fsl/guts.c
>>
>> What about the header?
>>
>> Does guts really need a separate maintainer from drivers/soc/fsl?
>
> [Lu Yangbo-B47093] I was hesitating to add the maintainer...
> And I was not so familiar with it. Let me leave it to the fsl/ directory and remove this...
>
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>>
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- Leo