From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: florian.vaussard@gmail.com (Florian Vaussard) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:03:11 +0100 Subject: Patch submission process about at91 DTS In-Reply-To: <20180131170453.GA16869@tp.shaiton.org> References: <20180131170453.GA16869@tp.shaiton.org> Message-ID: <1337f0d7-c112-e9db-6677-cbd2c58b1b06@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi K?vin, Le 31. 01. 18 ? 18:04, K?vin Raymond a ?crit?: > Hi there, > > We have several at91-kizbox* DTSs and I have few patches to suggest. > The idea is to split one dts over dtsi + several dts. > > My current patches are based an tested over the linux repo[0] against the > master branch (4e19652 Update the RISC-V MAINTAINERS file). > > Should I rebase them against the linux-at91[1] repository? Which branch, > at91-next? I would love them to reach the 4.14 branch but am not sure of > the right path to submit those changes. > Linux 4.14 is already out, so only patches for a stable release can be backported. See in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst for the rules. I guess that your patches do not apply for stable. So your patches will be applied to a latter release (4.16 if you are lucky as the merge window is now opened but most probably 4.17+). For the submission process itself, please read Documentation/process/* and especially "5.Posting.rst" and "submitting-patches.rst". There is also a documentation specific to DT patches in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ submitting-patches.txt. TL;DR look into the MAINTAINERS file or use ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl. For your AT91 patches, you should CC the maintainers: - Nicolas Ferre - Alexandre Belloni You should also CC the DT mainling list. Finally the AT91 Git tree is here [1]. Use that unless told differently by the maintainers. Best, Florian [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nferre/linux-at91.git