Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 1/4] dt-bindings: pwm: rockchip: add description for rk3568

Rob Herring
2021-07-13T22:57:35Z

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 08:34:18AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jul 2021, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:13:03AM +0800, cl@rock-chips.com wrote:
> > > From: Liang Chen <cl@rock-chips.com>
> > >
> > > add "rockchip,rk3568-pwm", "rockchip,rk3328-pwm" for pwm nodes on
> > > a rk3568 platform to pwm-rockchip.yaml.
> >
> > Looks good to me
> >
> > Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> >
> > Who is supposed to apply this patch? Does this need blessing by Rob?
>
> There is no standard. Rob will usually have some kind of arrangement
> with the associated maintainer(s). If this is a big functional
> change, I would suggest letting Rob and his army of bots give it the
> once over before it is applied in any case.

The documented standard[1] is subsystem maintainers take bindings. Are
there exceptions? Yes. Usually that's standalone patches (which netdev
maintainers just ignore for example).

One line compatible string changes don't need to wait for me.

Rob

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst#n67