Re: [PATCH 7/7] arm64: defconfig: Enable AM654x SDHCI controller

[Tero Kristo]

On 17/07/2020 16:09, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 1:20 PM Tero Kristo <t-kristo@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 17/07/2020 11:38, Faiz Abbas wrote:
> > > On 16/07/20 11:58 pm, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:25 PM Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I tend to ignore individual patches to the defconfig file unless
> > > > they are sent to:soc@xxxxxxxxxxx The best way to get them
> > > > included is to have the platform maintainers pick up the
> > > > changes and send them that way as a separate pull request
> > > > at the same time as sending any DT updates.
> > > >
> > > > The MAINTAINERS file lists Tero and Nishanth as maintainers
> > > > for the platform. If they want, I can apply this one directly, but in
> > > > the future, send it to them.
> > >
> > > Thanks for clarifying Arnd. Tero, can you pick this up?
> >
> > Ok, this topic has been bit unclear for me also, but if you say I can
> > pick the patches myself and send a pull request out, I can do that.
>
> Right. To clarify, the soc tree usually has separate branches for dts
> files, soc specific drivers, defconfig files and 32-bit platform code.
>
> When you pick up patches into your tree, please put them into
> branches that fit into those categories. You can group the patches
> into branches with more fine-grained categories if it makes sense
> (e.g. adding a particularly large driver, adding a new dts files for a
> new soc, or cosmetic cleanups across dts files).
>
> If any of the categories only have a couple of patches in them, you
> can decide to forward those as patches to soc@xxxxxxxxxx, but a
> pull request is always ok as well, even for a one-line patch.

Ok thanks for clarification, Arnd.

Based on that, queuing this up for 5.9 myself, thanks.

Will post pull-request next week for it, there appears to be another K3 
SoC related config change pending which I'll pick up also. Just want to 
capture -next results for these to see how well they integrate.

-Tero
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