Re: Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus
From: Ioana Ciornei
Date: Tue Mar 18 2025 - 10:27:00 EST
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 02:46:55PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Z9Lj9_yM1EK5pKee@gallifrey
> >
> > 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.
Of course, I will take care of review and testing.
>
> In that case please add the following entry in MAINTAINERS:
>
> L: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
Thank you,
Ioana