Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 May 2020 19:18:45 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux admin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] armv8: gpio: add gpio feature |
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On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 11:34:59PM +0530, Amit Tomer wrote: > > From what I can tell, these patches are not for the kernel. The > > filenames don't match th kernel layout. > > These files looks to be from U-boot, and must be intended for U-boot > as I see U-boot mailing address in recipient's address?
So why is it copied to:
devicetree@vger.kernel.org - a kernel mailing list linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org - the main kernel mailing list linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org - the gpio driver kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org - the ARM kernel mailing list
Given that it includes four kernel mailing lists (ok, devicetree may be argued to have a wider application), then I don't think the conclusion that "it's for u-boot, because there's _one_ u-boot mailing list in the recipients" is particularly obvious.
The author really needs to state that up front if they're sending it to a wide audeience, rather than leaving people to guess, thereby potentially wasting their time.
Not only did Andrew review the patch as if it were for the kernel, but I also wasted time on this as well when I double-took the ifdefs, and wanted to check the current driver in the kernel.
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