Re: [net-next PATCH v7 1/6] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: Document MDIO PHY

From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Jon <jon@solid-run.com>,
	Cristi Sovaiala <cristian.sovaiala@nxp.com>,
	Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>,
	Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@oss.nxp.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux.cj@gmail.com,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Yang <Paul.Yang@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v7 1/6] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: Document MDIO PHY
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:48:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VcXWB+7VyLJvb+BC6ymObWChUCh-HS-KtPmU-VY5rwxZg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200725073654.GA12097@lsv03152.swis.in-blr01.nxp.com>

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:37 AM Calvin Johnson
<calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:20:04PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:13 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 7/24/20 1:12 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:20 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:

...

> > > >> I think we need to NACK all attempts to add ACPI support to phylib and
> > > >> phylink until an authoritative ACPI Linux maintainer makes an
> > > >> appearance and actively steers the work. And not just this patchset,
> > > >> but all patchsets in the networking domain which have an ACPI
> > > >> component.
> > > >
> > > > It's funny, since I see ACPI mailing list and none of the maintainers
> > > > in the Cc here...
> > > > I'm not sure they pay attention to some (noise-like?) activity which
> > > > (from their perspective) happens on unrelated lists.
> > >
> > > If you what you describe here is their perception of what is going on
> > > here, that is very encouraging, we are definitively going to make progress.
> >
> > I can't speak for them. As a maintainer in other areas I expect that
> > people Cc explicitly maintainer(s) if they want more attention.
> > Otherwise I look at the mails to the mailing list just from time to
> > time. But this is my expectation, don't take me wrong.
>
> Sorry about this miss.
> In some past patch-set, I had added Rafael but somehow missed him this time.
>
> From the "MAINTAINERS" file, I got two maintainers. I don't know who else
> can help with this discussion. I'll add others whom I know from ACPI list.
> M:      "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
> M:      Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
>
> If you know others who can help, please add.
>
> Hi ACPI experts,
> Would you please help review this patchset and guide us.
>
> Please see the discussion on this patchset here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20200715090400.4733-1-calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com/T/#t

I would recommend resending the entire series with an appropriate Cc list.
See below as well.

ACPI FOR ARM64 (ACPI/arm64)
M: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
M: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
M: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko