Re: [PATCH v3] docs: dt: maintainer: Add Devicetree and OF maintainer profile document

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 15:21:46 EST


Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Document how Devicetree and Open Firmware maintainers handle their
> subsystem, especially focusing on two caveats:
>
> Devicetree subsystem handles patches with a minor difference comparing
> to other subsystems: while DT maintainers pick up OF code, they only
> provide review of DT bindings without applying these.
>
> All three DT bindings maintainers rely currently on Patchwork and due to
> enormous amount of emails per day, regardless how much DT maintainers
> try, they cannot read all the emails.
>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> I expect patch to be picked up by Rob, after review.
>
> Changes in v3:
> 1. Add also F: entry
>
> Changes in v2:
> 1. Correct typos and trailing white spaces.
> 2. Fix order of P: after C: in maintainers.
> ---
> .../process/maintainer-devicetree.rst | 70 +++++++++++++++++++
> MAINTAINERS | 3 +
> 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/process/maintainer-devicetree.rst

You'll need to add this new file to index.rst as well.

Thanks,

jon