Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: MAINTAINERS: Include resctrl MPAM driver

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 18/02/2026 18:13, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 05:46:40PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>
>>> What's wrong with the current entry?
>>
>> I explained in the commit msg:
>> "No maintainers handling the code (so subsystem maintainers)"
> 
> Yeah, I realised what you meant after sending my reply ;).
> 
>> It does not list the maintainers picking up patches, so if you use
>> standard tools (like b4, patman or scripted get_maintainers), you will
>> never appear on To/Cc list (relying on git-fallback is wrong).
> 
> The arm64 maintainers won't proactively pick these patches up unless we
> are asked by the MPAM maintainers. I don't mind whether the patches go
> in via the arm64 or Greg's drivers tree. We just queued the first drop
> as it touched arm64.
> 
> Let's see how it goes but I know little about MPAM, so just being on cc
> won't make much difference. I rely on the current MPAM maintainers to
> tell me what to merge.


OK, there are few subsystems (e.g. cdx) doing something similar -
listing only reviewing maintainer, which later has to poke the actual
maintainer picking up patches. I find it confusing practice and might
lead to patches being lost on the mailing list (happened for example
with cdx...), which is very poor contributor experience, but I
understand you might not want to maintain them (same happened for cdx...).

In that case MPAM folks, please kindly review and pick up only the first
patch. Or tell me what should be done...

Best regards,
Krzysztof