Re: [PATCH] spidev: Enable the Liebherr's BK4 board to work with spidev driver

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Hi Jan,

> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 04:20:32PM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> 
> > Hi Lukasz,
> > I tried submitting a similar patch for another devicem but got no
> > reaction [1]. In the meanwhile, there has been another proposal [2]
> > which moves  
> 
> As documented in SubmittingPatches please send patches to the 
> maintainers for the code you would like to change. 

I'm using the ./scripts/get_maintainer.py script to obtain list of
relevant people.

Moreover, you may want to look for gitk -- <patch to your modified
file> and add developers, who did some remarkable work in that file.

Also git-blame helps.

And another issue - maitainers are very often very busy (as
maintaining/reviewing is not their main occupation).
We would like to have a prompt response/review, but it is acceptable to
wait week or two for reply.... 


Please also document in the ./Documentation/devicetree the introduced
compatible -> there are some examples (ge,ahca) in the misc directory.

> The normal kernel
> workflow is that people apply patches from their inboxes, if they
> aren't copied they are likely to not see the patch at all and it is
> much more difficult to apply patches.




Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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