On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:08 AM Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I changed the subject line and applied the patch, thanks. Hey Lee, a couple comments/questions: 1. The subject line of this patch was updated in v11 of the series. 2. What tree was the patch applied to? I don't see the changes in linux-next. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/google,cros-ec.yaml On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 11:08 AM Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 04:27:32PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > You should gain permission from the maintainer before you apply patches. > > > > > > > > % scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/google,cros-ec.yaml > > > > Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES (MFD)) > > > > Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS) > > > > Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS) > > > > Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:ARM/Mediatek SoC support) > > > > > > I see. I guess for the case, I should get both MFD and DT bindings > > > maintainers' Acks before applying the patch. > > > > Yes. The situation isn't overly clear and differs from subsystem to > > subsystem and maintainer to maintainer. In the MFD case, Rob and > > Krzysztof conduct the first reviews. 99 times out of 100, if they're > > happy, I'm happy and I merge the changes via the MFD tree. Same goes > > for Backlight and more recently, LEDs. > > I see. Apologize for that and I will pay more attention next time when > handling cross-subsystem patches.