From: Yixun Lan <dlan@kernel.org>
To: Guodong Xu <docular.xu@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
spacemit@lists.linux.dev, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
Alex Elder <elder@riscstar.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add entry for SpacemiT reset controller driver
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 06:17:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260602061734-GKD3815935@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260601-b4-spacemit-reset-maintainers-v1-1-1ab3014e9a35@gmail.com>
Hi Guodong,
I appreciate someone help on this, only few comments.
On 21:35 Mon 01 Jun , Guodong Xu wrote:
> The SpacemiT reset controller driver under drivers/reset/spacemit/
> (common code plus the K1 and K3 SoC instances) and its reset-ID header
> have no dedicated MAINTAINERS entry; today they fall only under the
> broad drivers/reset/ entry of the reset subsystem and the N:/K:
> catch-all of the RISC-V SpacemiT SoC umbrella.
>
It make sense to just fall back to SpacemiT SoC without MAITAINERS
entry, the whole point of adding a didicated entry means someone
willing to put effort in future maintenance, to help review/refactor/fix
you can emphasis on this, and I just want to make sure we algined on
this..
> Add a dedicated entry and list myself as maintainer. I introduced the
> drivers/reset/spacemit/ subdirectory, moved and refactored the existing
> K1 reset support (originally written by Alex Elder) into it, and wrote
> the K3 reset driver. The series that created this directory and these
> files is archived at [1].
>
This paragraph provide addtional information of the history (which already
done), I'd personally prefer not puting them into commit message, but put
them below "---" as background introduction if you still want..
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/spacemit/20260120-k3-reset-v3-0-effe87f4bdbe@riscstar.com/
for the convention, suggest to use more formal format like
Link: https://.. [1]
>
also no blank line above
> Signed-off-by: Guodong Xu <docular.xu@gmail.com>
> ---
> I contributed this driver as Guodong Xu <guodong@riscstar.com>;
> docular.xu@gmail.com is my current address. A matching .mailmap update
> has been submitted at
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260601-b4-mailmap-guodong-xu-v1-1-ee9eff1e57ba@gmail.com/
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 9ec290e38b44a..c9d87244c1715 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -25119,6 +25119,13 @@ S: Maintained
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/spacemit,k1-i2c.yaml
> F: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-k1.c
>
> +SPACEMIT RESET CONTROLLER DRIVER
> +M: Guodong Xu <docular.xu@gmail.com>
> +L: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
and I'd still sugest to add spacemit mailing list explicitly
> +S: Maintained
> +F: drivers/reset/spacemit/
> +F: include/dt-bindings/reset/spacemit,k3-resets.h
> +
> SPANISH DOCUMENTATION
> M: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>
> R: Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>
>
> ---
> base-commit: e43ffb69e0438cddd72aaa30898b4dc446f664f8
> change-id: 20260601-b4-spacemit-reset-maintainers-4b5a91599585
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Guodong Xu <docular.xu@gmail.com>
>
>
--
Yixun Lan (dlan)
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Yixun Lan <dlan@kernel.org>
To: Guodong Xu <docular.xu@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
spacemit@lists.linux.dev, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
Alex Elder <elder@riscstar.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add entry for SpacemiT reset controller driver
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 06:17:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260602061734-GKD3815935@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260601-b4-spacemit-reset-maintainers-v1-1-1ab3014e9a35@gmail.com>
Hi Guodong,
I appreciate someone help on this, only few comments.
On 21:35 Mon 01 Jun , Guodong Xu wrote:
> The SpacemiT reset controller driver under drivers/reset/spacemit/
> (common code plus the K1 and K3 SoC instances) and its reset-ID header
> have no dedicated MAINTAINERS entry; today they fall only under the
> broad drivers/reset/ entry of the reset subsystem and the N:/K:
> catch-all of the RISC-V SpacemiT SoC umbrella.
>
It make sense to just fall back to SpacemiT SoC without MAITAINERS
entry, the whole point of adding a didicated entry means someone
willing to put effort in future maintenance, to help review/refactor/fix
you can emphasis on this, and I just want to make sure we algined on
this..
> Add a dedicated entry and list myself as maintainer. I introduced the
> drivers/reset/spacemit/ subdirectory, moved and refactored the existing
> K1 reset support (originally written by Alex Elder) into it, and wrote
> the K3 reset driver. The series that created this directory and these
> files is archived at [1].
>
This paragraph provide addtional information of the history (which already
done), I'd personally prefer not puting them into commit message, but put
them below "---" as background introduction if you still want..
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/spacemit/20260120-k3-reset-v3-0-effe87f4bdbe@riscstar.com/
for the convention, suggest to use more formal format like
Link: https://.. [1]
>
also no blank line above
> Signed-off-by: Guodong Xu <docular.xu@gmail.com>
> ---
> I contributed this driver as Guodong Xu <guodong@riscstar.com>;
> docular.xu@gmail.com is my current address. A matching .mailmap update
> has been submitted at
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260601-b4-mailmap-guodong-xu-v1-1-ee9eff1e57ba@gmail.com/
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 9ec290e38b44a..c9d87244c1715 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -25119,6 +25119,13 @@ S: Maintained
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/spacemit,k1-i2c.yaml
> F: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-k1.c
>
> +SPACEMIT RESET CONTROLLER DRIVER
> +M: Guodong Xu <docular.xu@gmail.com>
> +L: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
and I'd still sugest to add spacemit mailing list explicitly
> +S: Maintained
> +F: drivers/reset/spacemit/
> +F: include/dt-bindings/reset/spacemit,k3-resets.h
> +
> SPANISH DOCUMENTATION
> M: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>
> R: Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>
>
> ---
> base-commit: e43ffb69e0438cddd72aaa30898b4dc446f664f8
> change-id: 20260601-b4-spacemit-reset-maintainers-4b5a91599585
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Guodong Xu <docular.xu@gmail.com>
>
>
--
Yixun Lan (dlan)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-02 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-02 1:35 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add entry for SpacemiT reset controller driver Guodong Xu
2026-06-02 1:35 ` Guodong Xu
2026-06-01 13:48 ` Alex Elder
2026-06-02 6:17 ` Yixun Lan [this message]
2026-06-02 6:17 ` Yixun Lan
2026-06-02 21:42 ` Guodong Xu
2026-06-02 21:42 ` Guodong Xu
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