On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 10:33 AM Winiarska, Iwona <iwona.winiarska@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 16:51 +0000, Williams, Dan J wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 00:04 +0200, Iwona Winiarska wrote: > > > Note: All changes to arch/x86 are contained within patches 01-02. > > > > Hi Iwona, > > > > One meta question first, who is this submission "To:"? Is there an > > existing upstream maintainer path for OpenBMC changes? Are you > > expecting contributions to this subsystem from others? While Greg > > sometimes ends up as default maintainer for new stuff, I wonder if > > someone from the OpenBMC commnuity should step up to fill this role? > > > > The intention was to direct it to Greg, but I guess I didn't express > that through the mail headers. Usually something like a "Hey Greg, please consider applying..." in the cover letter lets people know who the upstream path is for the series. > I am expecting contributions - for example there is at least one other > major BMC vendor which also ships PECI controllers. You're expecting to take patches from them and you'll forward them to Greg, or they'll go to Greg directly? > > From my perspective, the pieces that make up a BMC are pretty loosely > connected (at least from the kernel perspective - scattered all over > the kernel tree), so I don't see how that would work in practice. No worries, Greg continues to scale more than other mere mortals for these kinds of things. I was more asking because it was not clear from these patches, nor MAINTAINERS, and it's healthy for Linux to grow new patch wranglers from time to time.
