Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option

Catalin Marinas
2020-12-01T14:41:58Z

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 07:50:25PM +0000, ZHIZHIKIN Andrey wrote:
> From Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>:
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 03:21:33PM +0000, Andrey Zhizhikin wrote:
> > > Commit 7ecdea4a0226 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it is
> > > unused") removed geenric_bl driver from the tree, together with
> > > corresponding config option.
> > >
> > > Remove BACKLIGHT_GENERIC config item from all ARM configurations.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 7ecdea4a0226 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it
> > > is unused")
> > > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhizhikin
> > > <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/cm_x300_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/colibri_pxa300_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/jornada720_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/magician_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/mini2440_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/pxa3xx_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/sama5_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/sunxi_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig | 1 -
> > > 13 files changed, 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > You need to send it to arm-soc maintainers, otherwise no one might feel
> > responsible enough to pick it up.
>
> Good point, thanks a lot!
>
> I was not aware of the fact that there is a separate ML that should
> receive patches targeted ARM SOCs. Can you (or anyone else) please
> share it, so I can re-send it there as well?

It's not a mailing list as such (with archives etc.), just an alias to
the arm-soc maintainers: arm@kernel.org.

> > Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> >
> > +CC Arnd and Olof,
> >
> > Dear Arnd and Olof,
> >
> > Maybe it is worth to add arm-soc entry to the MAINTAINERS file?
> > Otherwise how one could get your email address? Not mentioning the
> > secret-soc address. :)

I tried to convince them before, it didn't work. I guess they don't like
to be spammed ;). Or rather, SoC-specific patches, even to defconfig,
should go through the specific SoC maintainers. However, there are
occasional defconfig patches which are more generic or affecting
multiple SoCs. I just ignore them as the arm64 defconfig is usually
handled by the arm-soc folk (when I need a defconfig change, I go for
arch/arm64/Kconfig directly ;)).

Anyway, I still think that we should add a MAINTAINERS entry for
arch/arm64/configs/defconfig and arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms.

--
Catalin