From 29ce0bca6d5fc0f14a0b7a2c6551128fc27cb8db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:56:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: clarify submitting patches MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Patches for SoCs are expected to be picked up by SoC submaintainers. The main SoC maintainers should be addressed only in few cases. Rewrite the section about maintainer handling to document above expectation. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Linus Walleij Cc: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Conor Dooley Cc: Heiko Stübner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240925095635.30452-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann --- Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst index 12637530d68f..fe9d8bcfbd2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst @@ -30,10 +30,13 @@ tree as a dedicated branch covering multiple subsystems. The main SoC tree is housed on git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git/ +Maintainers +----------- + Clearly this is quite a wide range of topics, which no one person, or even small group of people are capable of maintaining. Instead, the SoC subsystem -is comprised of many submaintainers, each taking care of individual platforms -and driver subdirectories. +is comprised of many submaintainers (platform maintainers), each taking care of +individual platforms and driver subdirectories. In this regard, "platform" usually refers to a series of SoCs from a given vendor, for example, Nvidia's series of Tegra SoCs. Many submaintainers operate on a vendor level, responsible for multiple product lines. For several reasons, @@ -43,14 +46,43 @@ MAINTAINERS file. Most of these submaintainers have their own trees where they stage patches, sending pull requests to the main SoC tree. These trees are usually, but not -always, listed in MAINTAINERS. The main SoC maintainers can be reached via the -alias soc@kernel.org if there is no platform-specific maintainer, or if they -are unresponsive. +always, listed in MAINTAINERS. What the SoC tree is not, however, is a location for architecture-specific code changes. Each architecture has its own maintainers that are responsible for architectural details, CPU errata and the like. +Submitting Patches for Given SoC +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +All typical platform related patches should be sent via SoC submaintainers +(platform-specific maintainers). This includes also changes to per-platform or +shared defconfigs (scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide correct +addresses in such case). + +Submitting Patches to the Main SoC Maintainers +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The main SoC maintainers can be reached via the alias soc@kernel.org only in +following cases: + +1. There are no platform-specific maintainers. + +2. Platform-specific maintainers are unresponsive. + +3. Introducing a completely new SoC platform. Such new SoC work should be sent + first to common mailing lists, pointed out by scripts/get_maintainer.pl, for + community review. After positive community review, work should be sent to + soc@kernel.org in one patchset containing new arch/foo/Kconfig entry, DTS + files, MAINTAINERS file entry and optionally initial drivers with their + Devicetree bindings. The MAINTAINERS file entry should list new + platform-specific maintainers, who are going to be responsible for handling + patches for the platform from now on. + +Note that the soc@kernel.org is usually not the place to discuss the patches, +thus work sent to this address should be already considered as acceptable by +the community. + Information for (new) Submaintainers ------------------------------------