Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add Actions Semi S900 pinctrl entries

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam
<manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FYI, I have ordered S700 based Cubieboard and will work on adding support for
> that first. I still don't have access to S500 board yet since it is not
> available on my region. Will find a way to get this asap.

Awesome, then we can count on some actions action here.

>> Also I had been investing efforts in explaining the upstreaming process
>> to Actions, last in November. I see Thomas Liau and Jeff Chen missing in
>> CC and I have not seen any Reviewed-by or Acked-by from anyone at
>> Actions on this and the preceding series. There are more chips than the
>> one on Linaro's 96board, so I would prefer to assure that the design
>> works for all. Thus I am very critical of you applying the patches
>> without waiting for review by Actions.
>
> I don't think Actions would be interested in any upstreaming efforts. It
> is our (comunity) responsibility to add support for that in order to
> have our boards running mainline kernel and that's what we both have been
> doing. Moreover I only saw once David Liau responded to your patchset and
> there isn't much further. So how can you expect the subsystem maintainer's
> to hold the patch series waiting for a so far silent SoC manufacturer's
> response?

They are certainly informed now! :D

Actions semi folks, please familiarize yourself with the following:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/actions,s900-pinctrl.txt?h=devel
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl.git/tree/drivers/pinctrl/actions?h=devel

If you have any concerns with this, now is a good time to share them.

> I
> did ask you to add me as Co-Maintainer but you didn't responded to that.
> I know that I can't send any pull requests to Arnd, but we should sort
> it out IMO. Also, if you are completely swamped, then I take take up the
> maintainership role now inorder to keep the things moving. TBH I don't
> want my patches to be floating for months without any reason.

Doing some comainatinership can very well include doing pull
requests as long as you agree on who does what.

I think it may be a bit late for the next merge window right now,
but if you simply queue up stuff in some git tree and ask
Srothwell to include it in linux-next then Andreas can very well
pull it to his tree from there and then to ARM SoC or you can
queue patches as well.

Yours,
Linus Walleij