On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 02:31:07PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote: > Hi, Linus, Stephen, Greg, Ralf and James, > > We are kernel developers from Lemote Inc. and Loongson community. We > have already made some contributions in Linux kernel, but we hope we > can do more works. > > Of course Loongson is a sub-arch in MIPS, but linux-mips community is > so inactive (Maybe maintainers are too busy?) that too many patches ( > Not only for Loongson, but also for other sub-archs) were delayed for > a long time. So we are seeking a more efficient way to make Loongson > patches be merged in upstream. > > Now we have a github organization for collaboration: > https://github.com/linux-loongson/linux-loongson.git Ick, why not get a kernel.org account for your git tree? > We don't want to replace linux-mips, we just want to find a way to co- > operate with linux-mips. So we will still use the maillist and patchwork > of linux-mips, but we hope we can send pull requests from our github to > linux-next and linux-mainline by ourselves (if there is no objections > to our patches from linux-mips community). What does the mips maintainers think about this? Odds are a linux-next tree is fine, but they probably want to merge the trees into their larger mips one for the pulls to Linus, much like the arm-core tree works, right? thanks, greg k-h
