From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936234AbeEYOXi (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2018 10:23:38 -0400 Received: from mail-pl0-f66.google.com ([209.85.160.66]:35234 "EHLO mail-pl0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936171AbeEYOXd (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2018 10:23:33 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZquwDjqKCd9Ngxr4tO/E91ccCisEkr3hl4d0QlyYpZ+VsZwhJtOJyl62s7MkdoAQPwYGf/7ew== Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 19:53:22 +0530 From: Manivannan Sadhasivam To: Linus Walleij Cc: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= , Rob Herring , liuwei@actions-semi.com, 96boards@ucrobotics.com, OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS , Andy Shevchenko , Daniel Thompson , Amit Kucheria , Linux ARM , GPIO SUBSYSTEM , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , hzhang@ucrobotics.com, bdong@ucrobotics.com, Mani Sadhasivam , "Thomas C. Liau" , Jeff Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add Actions Semi S900 pinctrl entries Message-ID: <20180525142322.GA25453@linaro.org> References: <20180520051736.4842-1-manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> <20180520051736.4842-6-manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> <25d1c303-71d7-8c38-880f-7bb0e133a876@suse.de> <20180525050103.3hg3u2v5mvftqhht@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 02:12:06PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam > wrote: > > > FYI, I have ordered S700 based Cubieboard and will work on adding support for > > that first. I still don't have access to S500 board yet since it is not > > available on my region. Will find a way to get this asap. > > Awesome, then we can count on some actions action here. > Oops... Small correction here, I have ordered S500 based board. > >> Also I had been investing efforts in explaining the upstreaming process > >> to Actions, last in November. I see Thomas Liau and Jeff Chen missing in > >> CC and I have not seen any Reviewed-by or Acked-by from anyone at > >> Actions on this and the preceding series. There are more chips than the > >> one on Linaro's 96board, so I would prefer to assure that the design > >> works for all. Thus I am very critical of you applying the patches > >> without waiting for review by Actions. > > > > I don't think Actions would be interested in any upstreaming efforts. It > > is our (comunity) responsibility to add support for that in order to > > have our boards running mainline kernel and that's what we both have been > > doing. Moreover I only saw once David Liau responded to your patchset and > > there isn't much further. So how can you expect the subsystem maintainer's > > to hold the patch series waiting for a so far silent SoC manufacturer's > > response? > > They are certainly informed now! :D > > Actions semi folks, please familiarize yourself with the following: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/actions,s900-pinctrl.txt?h=devel > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl.git/tree/drivers/pinctrl/actions?h=devel > > If you have any concerns with this, now is a good time to share them. > > > I > > did ask you to add me as Co-Maintainer but you didn't responded to that. > > I know that I can't send any pull requests to Arnd, but we should sort > > it out IMO. Also, if you are completely swamped, then I take take up the > > maintainership role now inorder to keep the things moving. TBH I don't > > want my patches to be floating for months without any reason. > > Doing some comainatinership can very well include doing pull > requests as long as you agree on who does what. > > I think it may be a bit late for the next merge window right now, > but if you simply queue up stuff in some git tree and ask > Srothwell to include it in linux-next then Andreas can very well > pull it to his tree from there and then to ARM SoC or you can > queue patches as well. > Cool. Will queue up all approved dts patches in a git tree and share it with andreas. Thanks, Mani > Yours, > Linus Walleij