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[2001:1c00:c0c:fe00:d2ea:f29d:118b:24dc]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j5sm4208913ejt.52.2020.10.08.06.38.32 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] platform/surface: Create a platform subdirectory for Microsoft Surface devices To: Maximilian Luz , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Shevchenko , Darren Hart , Mark Gross , Mika Westerberg , Gayatri Kammela , Enric Balletbo i Serra , =?UTF-8?Q?Bla=c5=be_Hrastnik?= , Stephen Just , Dan Carpenter , Benjamin Tissoires , Chen Yu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20201005160307.39201-1-luzmaximilian@gmail.com> From: Hans de Goede Message-ID: <389f3a38-83ca-dfcd-476a-61b1d33751bb@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 15:38:32 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 10/8/20 2:32 PM, Maximilian Luz wrote: > On 10/8/20 1:44 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi Maximilian, >> >> On 10/5/20 6:03 PM, Maximilian Luz wrote: >>> As has come up in the discussion around >>> >>>    [RFC PATCH] Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module >>> >>> it may make sense to add a Microsoft Surface specific platform >>> subdirectory. Andy has suggested drivers/platform/surface for that. >>> This series follows said suggestion and creates that subdirectory, as >>> well as moves Microsoft Surface related drivers over to it and updates >>> their MAINTAINERS entries (if available) accordingly. >>> >>> This series does not modify any existing driver code, symbols, or help >>> text. >> >> In case you do not know I'm taking over from any as >> drivers/platform/x86 maintainer. >> >> I'm fine with the concept of this series, but who is going to maintain >> this new drivers/platform/surface directory ? >> >> Ah I see that the first patch answers that question and the plan >> is to keep this part of the pdx86 maintainership. >> >> I would prefer for the new dir to have its own >> MAINTAINERS entry if I'm honest, I would like to try and >> split maintainership for the surface stuff as follows: >> >> 1. Who will review (and add their Reviewed-by or ask for improvements >>     or nack) patches to files in this dir? >> >> 2. Who will gather approved patches apply them to a for-next branch >>     and send them out to Linus during the merge Window? >> >> I can pick up 2. but I could really use some help with 1. So I >> was thinking having a separate MAINTAINERS entry for the new >> dir with you (Maximilian) (and me and Mark Gross) listed as >> MAINTAINERS; and then I'm hoping that you can do the review >> of surface related patches. At least those which you have not >> written yourself. >> >> How does that sound ? > > Sounds good, I'd be happy to help review and approve any Surface related > patches. However, I think it would be beneficial if you and Mark still > have a final look (and say) over the ones I've reviewed and accepted (if > that's not already a given). I feel like I may lack a bit of experience > for this job and might miss some things. Since Mark or I will be merging the patches we will indeed still take a look at them, but it helps if someone else has already done a review first. > I'll add the MAINTAINERS entry and send a v3 later today, if that's OK. That sounds good, thanks. Regards, Hans