Hi Conor: On 18:24 Fri 18 Oct , Conor Dooley wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:08:03PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote: > > In other news, nobody has really made an "official" statement about who > > is going to maintain this particular platform. People have expressed > > interest (including the submitter of the series, IIRC) but there's no > > MAINTAINERS entry added here AFAICT. I used to have an entry that > > covered arch/riscv/boot/dts/*, with exclusions for sunxi and renesas, > > but with Drew taking on thead and sophgo being the resぽonsibility of > > Chen Wang and Inochi, I no longer have that wildcard. > > > > I'm happy to apply patches for the platform if noone else is interested > > in that side of things, provided there are willing reviewers, but I > > would much rather that someone else took up the responsibility of > > applying patches and sending PRs - and of course I am happy to help > > whoever that is with the process. > > On second thoughts (and on a second opinion) I am not actually willing > to apply patches for this platform, since it isn't sustainable to take > on each and every platform that there's no maintainer for. > Ok, I fully understand your concern.. > +CC a few more people that have been involved in the platform. > > Yixun Lan, you're kinda the "prime" person to maintain the platform > since you're the one who took up the core support work etc. Is > maintaining the platform, maybe with the help of one of the other folks > working on it something you can do? > That would be sweet, yes, I can take the maintainer responsibitly for now but, I'm open if someone else willing to help and co-maintain.. > Mostly the responsibilities are just applying patches for fixes/new > content and sending PRs to the soc maintainers - but knowing what's > right or not obviously requires familiarity with the platform which > people that work on it are best placed to do. Myself and the soc > maintainers will help if whoever does this runs into any trouble. > There is some documentation here https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-soc.html > that will assist somewhat with getting up to speed with the process > also. > Great, thanks for the info > Cheers, > Conor. last, one question I'd raise: for this particular patch series, do you want me to send another version v6 which can update the MAINTAINERS file (nothing changed with the code) -- Yixun Lan (dlan) Gentoo Linux Developer GPG Key ID AABEFD55
