Re: [PATCH v3 00/19] dt-bindings / arm64: Cleanup of i.MX 8 bindings

From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/19] dt-bindings / arm64: Cleanup of i.MX 8 bindings
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:51:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdaWAzJQz_Z1zsRbyVQNPO2wUogH8U_mDNV2fSkW22zmtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200828130837.GA14163@kozik-lap>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:08 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 02:51:20PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 9:35 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > This is a v3 of cleanup of i.XM 8 bindings and DTSes.
> >
> > If you are going to be working a lot on Freescale SoC code going forward
> > I wouldn't mind if you could add yourself as maintainer for the
> > Freescale pin controller and GPIO at least, I already have high trust
> > in you in general so if the Freescale maintainers also have that I think you
> > should just sign up as maintainer. This makes it easier to do pull requests
> > and things like that.
>
> Thanks for encouragement.  Indeed I am planning to do more work around
> i.MX 8M platforms from NXP/Freescale. However there are already four
> maintainers for Freescale pin controller drivers so I doubt there is
> need for fifth entry :).

I beg to differ. As subsystem maintainer it has happened to me more
than once that the i.MX pin control patches went unreviewed for weeks.
Everyone listed for this driver is a kitchen sink maintainer that get
way too much traffic and things fall over the edge.

> Different question is the GPIO driver which apparently lacks entry in
> Maintainers file.

That's probably just an oversight. Feel free to add it!

Yours,
Linus Walleij