Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2023 10:27:34 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Angelo as MediaTek SoC co-maintainer | From | AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <> |
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Il 02/10/23 05:30, Chen-Yu Tsai ha scritto: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 3:37 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, at 04:20, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote: >>> I am a top reviewer mainly for MediaTek SoC related patches in most >>> subsystems and I've also been upstreaming both improvements, fixes >>> and new drivers and devicetrees when required. >>> >>> The MediaTek scene saw a generous increase in number of patches that >>> are sent to the lists every week, increasing the amount of required >>> efforts to maintain the MTK bits overall, and we will possibly see >>> even more of that. >>> >>> For this reason, and also because of suggestions and encouragement >>> coming from the community, I'm stepping up to be a co-maintainer of >>> MediaTek SoCs support. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno >>> <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com> >>> --- >>> >>> P.S.: I tried to reach to Matthias for almost two months, but I couldn't >>> find any way to talk to him and he has been unresponsive on the mailing >>> lists as well. >>> >>> P.P.S.: This also comes after Rob Herring's suggestion to have myself as >>> a MediaTek SoC co-maintainer [1] and support from other people. >>> >>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230804225813.12493-1-robh@kernel.org/ >> >> Thanks for volunteering for this! >> >> I have no information on what Mattias is doing, but I see that he >> has not merged any patches since June, and that he never sent a >> pull request for your patches that are still in his for-next >> branch. >> >> I hope he's going to be ok, but let's plan for you to take over >> for the moment, at least until Matthias is again able to keep >> maintaining the platform in the near future. >> >> Here is my suggestion for how to continue from here: >> >> - Please send your MAINTAINERS file update to soc@kernel.org >> along with any urgent bugfixes you may have, so I can forward >> them for 6.7. I'm wrapping up the current set of fixes at >> the moment, so this would be for next week's rc >> >> - Create a git tree with the ususal branches (drivers, soc, dt, >> fixes, for-next) and ask Stephen Rothwell (on Cc) to add >> the combined for-next branch to linux-next for integration testing > > I suggest creating a shared git tree from the start. That way when > Mattias comes back and does agree to co-maintainership, or if anyone > else joins in, you don't have to change the git tree URL in a lot of > places. >
I agree with creating a shared git tree from the start... I currently don't have a kernel.org account yet, as I'm waiting for helpdesk to grant my account request.
They asked me to send a patch adding myself to MAINTAINERS as they would use that as a basis to grant the account request... so I guess it's happening soon; seen the urgency, I would do anything in my power to speed up the process, but probably there's "nothing to do" about it.
I am guessing that the right thing to do right now is to just send the mostly critical fixes to soc@kernel.org, along with this patch, and wait until a shared tree is created to keep things clean?
>> - Start each branch on 6.6-rc2 (usually we use rc1, but this time >> rc2 is a better candidate because of the last-minute >> drivers/pmdomain rename), and merge the corresponding branches >> from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/matthias.bgg/linux.git >> into those to avoids conflicts with his tree >> >> - Add any further patches you want in 6.7 on top >> >> - Send a first set of pull requests to soc@kernel.org for whatever >> you have merged as soon as you are confident about them, >> ideally by the end of next week. >> >> - Send additional pull requests for fixups or late features in >> the weeks after that as you see fit. >> >> See Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst for more details >> on the above. When Mattias comes back, you can work out a new >> process together with him. > > I can also answer any questions you might have about the process. >
Many thanks for your support, I greatly appreciate that.
Cheers, Angelo
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