From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: f.fainelli@gmail.com (Florian Fainelli) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:17:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: add entry for the Broadcom Northstar Plus SoCs In-Reply-To: References: <1440092861-25825-1-git-send-email-jonmason@broadcom.com> Message-ID: <55DDF491.3090700@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 25/08/15 16:42, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Jon Mason wrote: >> Modify the iProc MAINTAINER to cover the Nortstar Plus SoCs, and add me >> to the list of people responsible for it. > > That's not what this patch does. It removes CYGNUS from the > description as well. Hmm? > > I'm also not a fan of the complex patterns, but that's more of a > bikeshedding comment. Does Broadcom really not have a bit more > systematic naming than this? :) The naming conventions are fairly simple actually: * BCM is just a common prefix for internal names/projects/whatever * 9 indicates that this is a development/reference board * 4 to 5 digits designate the chip identifier Now, if you are trying to get some sense about how the chip ids are actually chosen, I am afraid none of us have that knowledge ;) > >> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason >> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden > > For maintainer updates, we usuallu like to see a public ack of this > and not just a pre-acked patch. You _could_ have added it yourself > without Scott's actual approval, after all. > > > -Olof > -- Florian