From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9261C433FE for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230310AbiJQTTd (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:19:33 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46734 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230299AbiJQTTc (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:19:32 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E210E6172; Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66F0161202; Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D9B9C433C1; Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:19:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1666034369; bh=Qr818kc1xI8X7W0RLObQ/uwj/M89QgsXdWjiM4pDHzQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=RYSrfixV7H4m8Bq9qKrOvE5+I10CcI1GmMEGUCZP3wdLcmijp9XkwxL+5DnslgW5x Rp/uJCAiFqp/f5aVODOXEu9RXvXk8wl5jQMBroBXMxmIPW/DXSfywCX24g1mgOWuG9 s94/yqeqz6oItVb3SqdztNfTbGXJrRn/nqXrJ45z9tnGhIaDaHWK/xNJTg3D1UDEIa JY03M2nxymtIhdbs1j1rwFxJtRMkGqn3proUNXjBI2raT89OVINb70LG2+7bjixnzV /K+g4gv1TpGb7tpP1wWa9F11cu5leYpW5VNJTcEy15ua7MrtTp6oCaWSaZ02NS/5xL ZJRsJqhWgWerQ== Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:19:28 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Jerry.Ray@microchip.com Cc: Vladimir Oltean , krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org, andrew@lunn.ch, vivien.didelot@gmail.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org, UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [net-next][PATCH v4] dt-bindings: dsa: Add lan9303 yaml Message-ID: <20221017121928.36b582c3@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20221017191311.mxkjfz75pgzbcwcz@skbuf> References: <20221003164624.4823-1-jerry.ray@microchip.com> <20221003164624.4823-1-jerry.ray@microchip.com> <20221008225628.pslsnwilrpvg3xdf@skbuf> <20221009222257.f3fcl7mw3hdtp4p2@skbuf> <551ca020-d4bb-94bf-7091-755506d76f58@linaro.org> <20221010102914.ut364d57sjhnb3lj@skbuf> <20221017191311.mxkjfz75pgzbcwcz@skbuf> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 22:13:11 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote: > The portion I highlighted of the change you're making includes your name > into the output of $(./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c). > In other words, you're voluntarily subscribing to the responsibility of > being a maintainer for the driver, getting emails from other developers, > reviewing patches. Furthermore, you also maintain the code in the stable > trees, hence your name also gets propagated there so people who use > those kernels can report problems to you. > > The MAINTAINERS entry for lan9303 needs to go to the "net" tree, from > where it can be backported. This covers the driver + schema files as > they currently are. The change of the .txt to the .yaml schema then > comes on top of that (and on "net-next"). And FWIW net gets merged into net-next every Thu so (compared to how long this patch had been in review) it won't be a large delay to wait for the MAINTAINERS patch to propagate.