Re: [PATCH 4/4] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as MStar/Sigmastar Armv7 SoC maintainers

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 4:57 AM Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sept 2021 at 04:03, Romain Perier <romain.perier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As proposed by Daniel, I am going to help him to maintain the platform,
> > so add myself as co-maintainer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 3a9a7cbf9456..ad1a0e5a5425 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -2231,6 +2231,7 @@ F:        arch/arm/mach-pxa/mioa701.c
> >
> >  ARM/MStar/Sigmastar Armv7 SoC support
> >  M:     Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:     Romain Perier <romain.perier@xxxxxxxxx>
> >  L:     linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
> >  S:     Maintained
> >  W:     http://linux-chenxing.org/
> > --
> > 2.33.0
> >
>
> Acked-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> For everyone else: For MStar/SigmaStar I have a ~350 commit backlog
> that makes almost everything work on these machines.
> It's impossible for me to finish up working out the hardware and clean
> up and push patches without the whole process taking years.
> Romain stepped up to help out and has been pulling out patches,
> cleaning them up and pushing them. He deserves to be listed as a
> maintainer.

Sounds good to me.

One process issue though: These emails were sent 'cc:soc@xxxxxxxxxx', so
they end up in patchwork, but I'm guessing they were not actually meant
for us to apply from there. I'm happy to take merge these patches (or
a future version of the series) directly from patchwork if that's what you
both had in mind, but for clarity please either

a) drop soc@xxxxxxxxxx from Cc for patches that are meant for review
and will be part of a pull request.

or

b) put soc@xxxxxxxxxx in the 'to:' field after they have been reviewed
and you want them to get merged.

Or even better, add an explicit sentence below the '---' line asking
for the patches to be merged directly into the soc tree when this
is what you want.

FWIW, I'd suggest merging the MAINTAINERS file change as a
bugfix for 5.15, it's generally better to do these as early as possible
to make sure any patches reach all the right people.

      Arnd