On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 02:12:06PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam > <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > FYI, I have ordered S700 based Cubieboard and will work on adding support for > > that first. I still don't have access to S500 board yet since it is not > > available on my region. Will find a way to get this asap. > > Awesome, then we can count on some actions action here. > Oops... Small correction here, I have ordered S500 based board. > >> Also I had been investing efforts in explaining the upstreaming process > >> to Actions, last in November. I see Thomas Liau and Jeff Chen missing in > >> CC and I have not seen any Reviewed-by or Acked-by from anyone at > >> Actions on this and the preceding series. There are more chips than the > >> one on Linaro's 96board, so I would prefer to assure that the design > >> works for all. Thus I am very critical of you applying the patches > >> without waiting for review by Actions. > > > > I don't think Actions would be interested in any upstreaming efforts. It > > is our (comunity) responsibility to add support for that in order to > > have our boards running mainline kernel and that's what we both have been > > doing. Moreover I only saw once David Liau responded to your patchset and > > there isn't much further. So how can you expect the subsystem maintainer's > > to hold the patch series waiting for a so far silent SoC manufacturer's > > response? > > They are certainly informed now! :D > > Actions semi folks, please familiarize yourself with the following: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/actions,s900-pinctrl.txt?h=devel > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl.git/tree/drivers/pinctrl/actions?h=devel > > If you have any concerns with this, now is a good time to share them. > > > I > > did ask you to add me as Co-Maintainer but you didn't responded to that. > > I know that I can't send any pull requests to Arnd, but we should sort > > it out IMO. Also, if you are completely swamped, then I take take up the > > maintainership role now inorder to keep the things moving. TBH I don't > > want my patches to be floating for months without any reason. > > Doing some comainatinership can very well include doing pull > requests as long as you agree on who does what. > > I think it may be a bit late for the next merge window right now, > but if you simply queue up stuff in some git tree and ask > Srothwell to include it in linux-next then Andreas can very well > pull it to his tree from there and then to ARM SoC or you can > queue patches as well. > Cool. Will queue up all approved dts patches in a git tree and share it with andreas. Thanks, Mani > Yours, > Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
