Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: sifive,plic: Document Renesas RZ/Five SoC

From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: sifive,plic: Document Renesas RZ/Five SoC
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:09:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220722180955.GA3770737-robh@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878roy16iw.wl-maz@kernel.org>

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 08:21:27PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:19:16 +0100,
> Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >
> > > Can you please have a look at the latest instance[1][2] of this
> > > series, as posted by Samuel? I've provisionally queued it, but only on
> > > the provision that you would eventually ack these patches.
> > 
> > I did already[1]. They passed checks, were already in linux-next, and I 
> > didn't see anything major needing comments, so I marked it N/A (meaning 
> > someone else applies it) without comment.
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20220630100241.35233-2-samuel@sholland.org/
> 
> How are people supposed to track this if it doesn't appear on the ML?

Look at patchwork?

How am I supposed to track maintainers that will rebase what they have 
in next to add acks and those that won't?

> That's not really an ack, AFAICT. That's a "I don't care".

I still look at it, so really it's an implicit ack. In this case, I 
probably just saw the irqchip-bot mail and missed your reply to the 
cover.

> Does it mean I'm free to take any random DT patch unless you or a bot
> shouts? I'd rather know.

Wait for acked/reviewed-by to apply? Isn't that the process?

Rob