Re: [PATCH V2 RESEND] soc: loongson: add Loongson Security Module driver

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

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 <zhaoqunqin@loongson.cn>
>>>>> 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