Re: Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Tue Mar 18 2025 - 10:21:18 EST


Hi Ioana,

Le 18/03/2025 à 11:40, Ioana Ciornei a écrit :
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Hi,

As highlighted by the discussion in the following thread, the
maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus is not clear.

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The fsl-mc bus driver was first added to drivers/staging and because of
that, Greg was to one to pick up patches through his tree. Once it was
moved to drivers/bus/fsl-mc, patches on this driver were picked either
by Greg or by the Freescale SOC maintainer at that time - Li Yang.

Conceptually speaking, the fsl-mc bus driver is contributing to the same
infrastructure level as the SoC drivers maintained now by Christophe.

Christophe, would you be open to pick up patches for this bus driver
through your tree?

Yes its fine for me to take it via my soc fsl subtree unless Arnd tells different. But be aware that it will be purely administrative. I will have no mean to check whether any changes are actually working properly.

In that case please add the following entry in MAINTAINERS:

L: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



As a side note, I know that the MAINTAINERS entry for this driver is not
up to date - Laurentiu's email bounces. I will send a patch updating it
after it's clear to whom I should send it.

Thanks,
Ioana