From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A132D152E12; Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=140.211.166.183 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729295189; cv=none; b=jphWa9c7MS45ywWR3DMPG6v97bdAUrz7zy4nt0PwrKv5wWd0Bfqew6uD0+A6QHvfU+fY0OP9b9ltHOD53oayKiQOIh96vkPf2gbnRFDQTh7557NzFYQgqpw5GMszHLU9mTGjlsss8ygPckUeUAIBEFaxJWZyrZlJrBOeISAE7IA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729295189; c=relaxed/simple; bh=oH3mmL8w1VzBwkoIErlqAXURXZliwRqlPIyCItbDdjU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=TnHPuRDfqTcswURRWrFKZAxdabo97hX78zSQTKq9IWB6WfQ6MnU9IoVmxtRTvO5gFYx9SXIdlKjw2gz3zCjUTM3coHFuk9kGfXpV8TFyftbqVgwyFChtPxNb9MZW+5TTHi5tZ2AU7L/fwTRTcXOqfJrr4gANcPNQtXV+MaL2W2E= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gentoo.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gentoo.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=140.211.166.183 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gentoo.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gentoo.org Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:46:15 +0800 From: Yixun Lan To: Conor Dooley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt , robh@kernel.org, krzk+dt@kernel.org, conor+dt@kernel.org, Paul Walmsley , cyy@cyyself.name, samuel.holland@sifive.com, anup@brainfault.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, inochiama@outlook.com, uwu@icenowy.me, zhangmeng.kevin@spacemit.com, kevin.z.m@hotmail.com, matthias.bgg@kernel.org, Haylen Chu , Troy Mitchell , Charlie Jenkins , Jesse T Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] riscv: add initial support for SpacemiT K1 Message-ID: <20241018234615-GYA2124001@gentoo> References: <20240730-k1-01-basic-dt-v5-0-98263aae83be@gentoo.org> <20240917-spoilage-nimble-a8303fd04482@squawk> <20241018-drapery-stable-cc31a97cda90@spud> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20241018-drapery-stable-cc31a97cda90@spud> Hi Conor: On 18:24 Fri 18 Oct , Conor Dooley wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:08:03PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote: > > In other news, nobody has really made an "official" statement about who > > is going to maintain this particular platform. People have expressed > > interest (including the submitter of the series, IIRC) but there's no > > MAINTAINERS entry added here AFAICT. I used to have an entry that > > covered arch/riscv/boot/dts/*, with exclusions for sunxi and renesas, > > but with Drew taking on thead and sophgo being the resぽonsibility of > > Chen Wang and Inochi, I no longer have that wildcard. > > > > I'm happy to apply patches for the platform if noone else is interested > > in that side of things, provided there are willing reviewers, but I > > would much rather that someone else took up the responsibility of > > applying patches and sending PRs - and of course I am happy to help > > whoever that is with the process. > > On second thoughts (and on a second opinion) I am not actually willing > to apply patches for this platform, since it isn't sustainable to take > on each and every platform that there's no maintainer for. > Ok, I fully understand your concern.. > +CC a few more people that have been involved in the platform. > > Yixun Lan, you're kinda the "prime" person to maintain the platform > since you're the one who took up the core support work etc. Is > maintaining the platform, maybe with the help of one of the other folks > working on it something you can do? > That would be sweet, yes, I can take the maintainer responsibitly for now but, I'm open if someone else willing to help and co-maintain.. > Mostly the responsibilities are just applying patches for fixes/new > content and sending PRs to the soc maintainers - but knowing what's > right or not obviously requires familiarity with the platform which > people that work on it are best placed to do. Myself and the soc > maintainers will help if whoever does this runs into any trouble. > There is some documentation here https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-soc.html > that will assist somewhat with getting up to speed with the process > also. > Great, thanks for the info > Cheers, > Conor. last, one question I'd raise: for this particular patch series, do you want me to send another version v6 which can update the MAINTAINERS file (nothing changed with the code) -- Yixun Lan (dlan) Gentoo Linux Developer GPG Key ID AABEFD55