Re: [PATCH v6 3/8] MAINTAINERS: add maintainer for the Ka-Ro tx8p-ml81 COM module

[Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>]

Dear Device Tree Maintainers,
Dear Maud and Shawn,

On 09.05.25 11:03, Maud Spierings | GOcontroll wrote:
> On 5/9/25 10:58, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>>>> +KA-RO TX8P COM MODULE
>>>>> +M:	Maud Spierings <maudspierings@gocontroll.com>
>>>>> +L:	imx@lists.linux.dev
>>>>> +S:	Maintained
>>>>> +F:	arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-tx8p-ml81.dtsi
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>> I'm not fond of such changes, as MAINTAINERS file could be bloated
>>>> quickly by individual DTS.
>>>
>>> Is there some way you would prefer to see it? I don't really know of a better
>>> way.
>>
>> There was some discussion about getting ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl pick
>> up the Author: field (in DTS header area).  But I'm not sure where it
>> ended.
> 
> I feel like that would be wrong in this situation too, it would pull in
> Lothar Wassmann, who has nothing to do with me upstreaming this. I have
> seen him around on the mailing list but given that Ka-Ro are not
> upstreaming these themselves, I feel it would be weird to pull him into
> this.

We can add multiple authors. Authors not wishing to receive mail can always
remove their name or blackhole their mail address via the mailmap.

I am not leaning strongly in favor of either way, but I am bothered a little
by b4 nagging me about adding MAINTAINERS entry for device trees that I've
added. It would be nice to have a guideline here.

If the current guideline is not to add MAINTAINERS for device tree, then
this patch that has generated no feedback so far could use some attention:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250113-b4-dts-mainainers-check-v1-1-794ed5749a94@pengutronix.de/

Cheers,
Ahmad

> 


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