Re: [RFC 2/2] MAINTAINERS: add a limited ARM and ARM64 SoC entry

Re: [RFC 2/2] MAINTAINERS: add a limited ARM and ARM64 SoC entry

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 11:15:16PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> It is expected for ARM and ARM64 SoC related code to go through
> sub-architecture maintainers.  Their addresses were therefore not

I reshaped my message last moment and missed that it does not make
sense anymore... It should be:
"The ARM and ARM64 SoC maintainers addresses were therefore not..."

Best regards,
Krzysztof

> documented to push patch traffic through sub-architecture maintainers.
> 
> However when patches touch generic code, e.g. multi_v7_defconfig, the
> patch might not be picked up by them and instead should go to the SoC
> maintainers - Arnd and Olof.
> 
> Add a minimal maintainer's entry for SoC covering only Makefile, so it
> will not appear on most of submissions (except new devicetree boards).
> It will though serve as a documentation and reference for cases when
> submitter does not know where to send his SoC-related patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 6149066a545e..f302983645bd 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1491,6 +1491,16 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu*
>  F:	drivers/iommu/arm/
>  F:	drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm*
>  
> +ARM AND ARM64 SoC SUB-ARCHITECTURES (COMMON PARTS)
> +M:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> +M:	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> +M:	soc@kernel.org
> +L:	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> +S:	Maintained
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git
> +F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile
> +F:	arch/arm64/boot/dts/Makefile
> +
>  ARM SUB-ARCHITECTURES
>  L:	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
>  S:	Maintained
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>