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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 03/01/2025 09:46, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 03/01/2025 09:35, Zhao Qunqin wrote: >> >> 在 2025/1/3 下午3:26, Krzysztof Kozlowski 写道: >>> On 03/01/2025 03:25, Zhao Qunqin wrote: >>>> 在 2024/12/28 下午7:02, Krzysztof Kozlowski 写道: >>>>>> Only ACPI firmware is supported. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Qunqin Zhao >>>>> I don't get why you are sending this to soc. This is loongson specific >>>>> and is supposed to go via Loongson maintainers. >>>>> >>>>> And why is this a resend? >>>> There are no platform-specific maintainers, So I initially sent the >>>> patch to Arnd, >>> What do you mean by "no platform-specific maintainers"? This >>> architecture and this platform is abandoned? >> >> Sorry for my poor english. This architecture and this  platform is not >> ababdoned. >> >> What I mean is that there are no Loongson staff to maintain >> drivers/soc/loongson. > > But there are maintainers of the platform, are they? Someone cares about > Loongson or not? > > If someone cares, then Cc this person and this person is responsible for > handling your patches. This is called "maintainer". > > If no one cares, then platform is abandoned and we should consider > calling it orphaned in Linux. > >> >> The current maintainer  for drivers/soc/loongson is Arnd. > > I don't think so. First, it is unusual. Second, maintainers disagree ^^^ By "maintainers" I meant here the "MAINTAINERS" file, so scripts/get_maintainers.pl. > with you on above statement. > > You keep disagreeing here with me and I am afraid we will end up in > endless discussion, so to reiterate because maybe I wrote my emails too > soft or too conditional, instead of stating the desired outcome: > Please send your Loongson SoC drivers to Loongson maintainers and they > are supposed to take it. If they do not take it, I will send patch for > making the platform orphaned. Best regards, Krzysztof