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

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-12-01T21:19:37Z

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 04:50:22PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 4:41 PM Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > On 01/12/2020 14:40:53+0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 07:50:25PM +0000, ZHIZHIKIN Andrey wrote:
> > > > From Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>:
>
> > > I tried to convince them before, it didn't work. I guess they don't like
> > > to be spammed ;).
> >
> > The first rule of arm-soc is: you do not talk about arm@ and soc@
>
> I don't mind having the addresses documented better, but it needs to
> be done in a way that avoids having any patch for arch/arm*/boot/dts
> and arch/arm/*/configs Cc:d to soc@kernel.org.
>
> If anyone has suggestions for how to do that, let me know.

Not a perfect solution but something. How about:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20201201211516.24921-2-krzk@kernel.org/T/#u

Would not work on defconfigs but there is a chance someone will find
your addresses this way. Should not cause to much additional traffic.

Best regards,
Krzysztof