On 24/09/2024 15:19, Conor Dooley wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 03:08:31PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > >> Most of these submaintainers have their own trees where they stage patches, >> sending pull requests to the main SoC tree. These trees are usually, but not >> -always, listed in MAINTAINERS. The main SoC maintainers can be reached via the >> -alias soc@xxxxxxxxxx if there is no platform-specific maintainer, or if they >> -are unresponsive. >> +always, listed in MAINTAINERS. > > I probably had some specific case in mind with that original wording. I > presume it still holds true for some smaller platforms, but I cannot > remember the specific case that prompted it. I'll have to see if I can > figure out which platforms they are (if any) and get the tree added. > > Cheers, > Conor. > >> What the SoC tree is not, however, is a location for architecture-specific code >> changes. Each architecture has its own maintainers that are responsible for >> architectural details, CPU errata and the like. >> >> +Submitting Patches for Given SoC >> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> + >> +All usual platform related patches should be sent via SoC submaintainers >> +(platform-specific maintainers. This includes also changes to per-platform or > ^ this is unclosed. Ack. I have v2 with minor text changes in other places as well. I will send soon. Best regards, Krzysztof
