Re: [PATCH 00/32] clk: mediatek: Migrate to common probe/remove helpers and fix memory leaks

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 16:28:07 -0400 Brian Masney wrote:
> Hi Jakub,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 12:50:34PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon,  3 Aug 2026 23:16:27 +0900 Akari Tsuyukusa wrote:  
> > > This series migrates most MediaTek clock drivers to the common
> > > probe/remove helpers provided by the MTK clock framework.  
> > 
> > Why are you CCing netdev on this? None of it touches networking  
> 
> I saw that message from you about two different mediatek patch series
> from different submitters. This series has 38 files, all under
> drivers/clk/mediatek/. If I run get_maintainers.pl on each file path
> individuall like this:
> 
>   $ cat filelist | awk '{print $1}' | \
>   	xargs -iblah echo ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl blah
> 
> Then netdev list doesn't show up.
> 
> However, if I look at it as a whole, then it shows up:
> 
>     $ b4 am 20260803141659.559129-1-akkun11.open@gmail.com
>     $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl \
>     	./20260803_akkun11_open_clk_mediatek_migrate_to_common_probe_remove_helpers_and_fix_memory_leaks.mbx
> 
>     ...
>     netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:PTP HARDWARE CLOCK SUPPORT:Keyword:(?:\b|_)ptp(?:\b|_))
> 
> I think it's matching on this entry in MAINTAINERS:
> 
> PTP HARDWARE CLOCK SUPPORT
> M:      Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
> L:      netdev@vger.kernel.org
> S:      Maintained
> W:      http://linuxptp.sourceforge.net/
> F:      Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp
> F:      Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst
> F:      drivers/net/phy/dp83640*
> F:      drivers/ptp/*
> F:      include/linux/ptp_cl*
> K:      (?:\b|_)ptp(?:\b|_)
> 
> I think it's the K: for the ptp that's matching.
> 
> $ grep ptp 20260803_akkun11_open_clk_mediatek_migrate_to_common_probe_remove_helpers_and_fix_memory_leaks.mbx
> -static const struct mtk_pll_data ptp_plls[] = {
> -	PLL(CLK_PTPPLL, "ptppll", PTPPLL_CON0, PTPPLL_CON0, 0, 0, PLL_AO,
> +static const struct mtk_clk_desc ptp_plls = {
> +		PLL(CLK_PTPPLL, "ptppll", PTPPLL_CON0, PTPPLL_CON0, 0, 0, PLL_AO,
> 

I see, thanks for digging thru this!

Patchwork matching rules must be missing the PTP side because none of
the patches end up assigned to netdev. No big deal but going forward
I think you can drop this extra CC.