Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: qcom: Add zombie

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 3:27 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 24/11/2022 12:20, 楊宗翰 wrote:
> > Hi Krzysztof, Matthias,
> >
> > How to use "get_maintainers.pl"?
> >
> > I find this script in path "<MyCodebase>/kernel/v5.15/script", and output
>
> This looks like v5.15 kernel which is heavily outdated. Please never
> work on such kernels when interacting with upstream. The rule is you
> work on either last mainline kernel (v6.1-rc6), maintainers for-next
> branch (you should know who is the maintainer of subsystem you submit
> to, get_maintainers.pl gives this information) or on moderately recent
> linux-next. For bigger patchsets there might be exceptions for these
> rules, but it's not the case here.

Just to add context here, it's a fairly standard workflow for ChromeOS
kernel engineers to work in a "versioned" kernel directory but still
checkout and work with the upstream kernel. I'm sure it's confusing to
anyone not used to working with the ChromeOS source tree and build
system. Sorry! :( So the fact that Owen is in a directory called
"v5.15" doesn't mean that he's actually working with the v5.15 kernel.
The fact that Bjorn's address is correct in his CC list implies to me
that he's actually got a proper upstream kernel.

I had previously [0] instructed Owen to send against Bjorn's tree, so
hopefully it's correct.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAD=FV=Vd4UFabWeEsd7cDhhpnFkjTuYhc38zwAbfyxq2AHnhYA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

-Doug