On Tue, 12 Mar 2024, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote: > On 12/03/2024 08:42, Nikita Travkin wrote: > > Some ARM64 based laptops and computers require vendor/board specific > > drivers for their embedded controllers. Even though usually the most > > important functionality of those devices is implemented inside ACPI, > > unfortunately Linux doesn't currently have great support for ACPI on > > platforms like Qualcomm Snapdragon that are used in most ARM64 laptops > > today. Instead Linux relies on Device Tree for Qualcomm based devices > > and it's significantly easier to reimplement the EC functionality in > > a dedicated driver than to make use of ACPI code. > > > > This commit introduces a new platform/arm64 subdirectory to give a > > place to such drivers for EC-like devices. > > > > A new MAINTAINERS entry is added for this directory. Patches to files in > > this directory will be taken up by the platform-drivers-x86 team (i.e. > > Hans de Goede and Mark Gross). > > > > Signed-off-by: Nikita Travkin <nikita@xxxxxxx> > > --- > > MAINTAINERS | 9 +++++++++ > > drivers/platform/Kconfig | 2 ++ > > drivers/platform/Makefile | 1 + > > drivers/platform/arm64/Kconfig | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > > drivers/platform/arm64/Makefile | 6 ++++++ > > 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index b43102ca365d..ec8d706a99aa 100644 > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > @@ -3050,6 +3050,15 @@ F: drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-arasan.c > > N: zynq > > N: xilinx > > +ARM64 PLATFORM DRIVERS > > +M: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > > +M: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > +L: platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > +S: Maintained > > +Q: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/platform-driver-x86/list/ > > +T: git > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git > > Surely some sort of Arm specific mailing list should be added here ? > platform-drivers-x86 for arm64 platform drivers standalone, makes little > sense. > > Perhaps for each new SoC class added - you could add the appropriate mailing > list linux-arm-msm is suspiciously missing from the list even though the only > driver that will live in this directory after this series is a qcom based > device. > > And if tomorrow someone added a Rockchip based EC controller then you'd assume > the rockchip mailing list should get a ping. While generic arm mailing list is perhaps lacking too, for specific driver related lists it is better to add separate MAINTAINERS entries for the particular driver and put L: there. -- i.
