Re: [PATCH v2 29/30] dt-bindings: add vendor prefix for bananapi

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> thanks for helping me looping in the right group
>
>
> Hi Arnd and Olof
>
> I found Matthias is inactive for a while (his branch in his tree seemed
> to stop at 4.10 since the end of February) maybe he was busy at other
> things. Is there a good way to break the stuck situation and keeping
> linux-mediatek moving on?
>
> I have the willing to fork his tree, prepare dt-for-4.12 and send
> pull-requests to you.

Hi Sean,

Thanks for offering to help out. I've added Matthias' other email address
to Cc here, let's see if he notices the discussion now. Ideally any
important platform should have multiple maintainers so there is
always a backup person when the primary contact is unavailable
for any reason.

I'm not sure how much we can still do for 4.12, if you can prepare a
branch now we can definitely have a look and see what we can
realistically take for a late merge, but as we are in the second half
of the merge window already, we would normally put new features
into a 4.13 branch and only take bug fixes for 4.12. If there are
some entirely new files for additional boards, or only small changes
to the existing files, we might make an exception this time.

> But I am worried in that way violating the reviewing process if
> Matthias no reads it.

Don't worry about that at the moment, if Matthias cannot be reached
at all, we have to find an alternative way to get patches in.

        Arnd

> On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 08:52 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> +arm-soc
>>
>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 15:37 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 05:26:13PM +0800, sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> > From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> >
>> >> > Banana Pi team in Sinovoip Co., Limited which are dedicated to
>> >> > design and manufacture open hardware product.
>> >> >
>> >> > Website: http://www.banana-pi.org/
>> >> >
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> > ---
>> >> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 +
>> >> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >> >
>> >> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> >> > index ec0bfb9..8ca0f3c 100644
>> >> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> >> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> >> > @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ avia      avia semiconductor
>> >> >  avic       Shanghai AVIC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
>> >> >  axentia    Axentia Technologies AB
>> >> >  axis       Axis Communications AB
>> >> > +bananapi Banana Pi SINOVOP CO., LIMITED
>> >>
>> >> s/SINOVOP/SINOVOIP/
>> >
>> > Hi Rob,
>> >
>> > thanks for your careful reviewing , i will correct it in the next
>> > version.
>> >
>> > BTW, Could those related dts changes go through your tree if everything
>> > looks good? Because I find Matthias have been inactive for a while and
>> > the latest branch in his tree seems still staying on 4.10.
>>
>> Happy to take binding doc changes, but I don't take dts changes
>> because those go thru arm-soc. If the platform maintainer is not
>> responsive, then we should replace or add maintainers.
>>
>> Rob