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[90.182.112.124]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-48862773ee0sm5537769f8f.6.2026.09.22.07.54.18 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:54:17 +0200 From: Joshua Crofts To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: David Lechner , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, jic23@kernel.org, andy@kernel.org, nuno.sa@analog.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Maintainer entry profile/contributor guide for IIO Message-ID: <20260922165417.00007e51@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4c87fa3e-170e-45e3-b72e-fb1a6ee1a7d5@kernel.org> References: <20260817111825.000063f6@gmail.com> <20260818090652.000020bc@gmail.com> <20260919113546.51a943e6@systembl0wer> <4c87fa3e-170e-45e3-b72e-fb1a6ee1a7d5@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.4.0 (GTK 3.24.51; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:53:36 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > >> Maintainers file already defines git tree. Patchwork as well. Please > >> read existing docs first, because it seems you propose to duplicate it > >> (including submitting patches and other process documents). > >> > >> Subsystem profiles are expected to document things which are done here a > >> bit differently or specific subsystem expectations, narrowing general > >> kernel process docs. > >> > >> > >>> - code style - the TODO is fine for existing problems in the subsystem but doesn't > >>> point out idioms we have in IIO, i.e. not using (the awful) kernel.h, preferring > >>> devm_* functions, not failing on a mismatched ID to ensure fallback etc. This is > >>> stuff that appears a lot in patches. > >> > >> You just described standard kernel practice. Don't create documents just > >> for sake of creating them. > > > > I'd like you to point me to a doc that says that fallbacks are a thing > > and you shouldn't do dev_err_probe() on a bad ID (to name one "quirk"). > > > > Otherwise I agree that some of it is repetitive. > > You wrote devm and kernel.h... I was referring to the next paragraph. Yeah, perhaps it's not the greatest idea to add new docs if people don't read them. Someone should instead come up with a way to *force* newcomers to read documentation instead. -- Kind regards, Joshua Crofts