From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753735AbdECROO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2017 13:14:14 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:59506 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753034AbdECROG (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2017 13:14:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 18:14:02 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Timur Tabi Cc: arm@kernel.org, will.deacon@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add arm@kernel.org as the list for arm64 defconfig changes Message-ID: <20170503171401.GC23620@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1493829085-11864-1-git-send-email-timur@codeaurora.org> <20170503170110.GB23620@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <95597ce9-a46f-1491-ae65-518ed8b8c44c@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <95597ce9-a46f-1491-ae65-518ed8b8c44c@codeaurora.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 12:08:21PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On 05/03/2017 12:01 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 11:31:25AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > >> > Any changes to arch/arm64/configs/defconfig must be sent to arm@kernel.org, > >> > otherwise they will not get picked up. Add a MAINTAINERS entry to ensure > >> > the get_maintainers includes it. > > There are other patches that go through arm@kernel.org like > > arch/arm64/boot/dts/ but the arm-soc guys didn't want a MAINTAINERS > > entry (I don't remember the reasons). > > I'm happy to add additional paths/files, but without a MAINTAINERS entry, > how would anyone know to CC: that address? I posted 3 versions of my > defconfig patchset before someone told me that I had to send it to > arm@kernel.org. Most of the time it's the arm-soc guys pushing changes to defconfig, though on occasion the arm64 maintainers make some changes as well. > Anyway, I really hope it's not too late for my defconfig changes to make > 4.12. Please consider them. Thank you. I'm usually fine with such updates immediately after -rc1 but I can't speak for the arm-soc folk. -- Catalin