Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus

Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus

[Ioana Ciornei]

Hi,

As highlighted by the discussion in the following thread, the
maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus is not clear.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Z9Lj9_yM1EK5pKee@gallifrey

The fsl-mc bus driver was first added to drivers/staging and because of
that, Greg was to one to pick up patches through his tree. Once it was
moved to drivers/bus/fsl-mc, patches on this driver were picked either
by Greg or by the Freescale SOC maintainer at that time - Li Yang.

Conceptually speaking, the fsl-mc bus driver is contributing to the same
infrastructure level as the SoC drivers maintained now by Christophe.

Christophe, would you be open to pick up patches for this bus driver
through your tree?

As a side note, I know that the MAINTAINERS entry for this driver is not
up to date - Laurentiu's email bounces. I will send a patch updating it
after it's clear to whom I should send it.

Thanks,
Ioana

Re: Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus

[Christophe Leroy]

Hi Ioana,

Le 18/03/2025 à 11:40, Ioana Ciornei a écrit :
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> As highlighted by the discussion in the following thread, the
> maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus is not clear.
> 
> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Flinux-arm-kernel%2FZ9Lj9_yM1EK5pKee%40gallifrey&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C00bf096aa0fe40f9d8e908dd66094d7d%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C638778912314503921%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2F%2B%2FXzSQ9VUY81xPbjB8%2F0vIIF9ChaTRXupWd59%2Fvfco%3D&reserved=0
> 
> The fsl-mc bus driver was first added to drivers/staging and because of
> that, Greg was to one to pick up patches through his tree. Once it was
> moved to drivers/bus/fsl-mc, patches on this driver were picked either
> by Greg or by the Freescale SOC maintainer at that time - Li Yang.
> 
> Conceptually speaking, the fsl-mc bus driver is contributing to the same
> infrastructure level as the SoC drivers maintained now by Christophe.
> 
> Christophe, would you be open to pick up patches for this bus driver
> through your tree?

Yes its fine for me to take it via my soc fsl subtree unless Arnd tells 
different. But be aware that it will be purely administrative. I will 
have no mean to check whether any changes are actually working properly.

In that case please add the following entry in MAINTAINERS:

L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org


> 
> As a side note, I know that the MAINTAINERS entry for this driver is not
> up to date - Laurentiu's email bounces. I will send a patch updating it
> after it's clear to whom I should send it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ioana

Re: Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus

[Ioana Ciornei]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 02:46:55PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Hi Ioana,
> 
> Le 18/03/2025 à 11:40, Ioana Ciornei a écrit :
> > [Vous ne recevez pas souvent de courriers de ioana.ciornei@nxp.com. D?couvrez pourquoi ceci est important ? https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ]
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As highlighted by the discussion in the following thread, the
> > maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus is not clear.
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Z9Lj9_yM1EK5pKee@gallifrey
> > 
> > The fsl-mc bus driver was first added to drivers/staging and because of
> > that, Greg was to one to pick up patches through his tree. Once it was
> > moved to drivers/bus/fsl-mc, patches on this driver were picked either
> > by Greg or by the Freescale SOC maintainer at that time - Li Yang.
> > 
> > Conceptually speaking, the fsl-mc bus driver is contributing to the same
> > infrastructure level as the SoC drivers maintained now by Christophe.
> > 
> > Christophe, would you be open to pick up patches for this bus driver
> > through your tree?
> 
> Yes its fine for me to take it via my soc fsl subtree unless Arnd tells
> different. But be aware that it will be purely administrative. I will have
> no mean to check whether any changes are actually working properly.

Of course, I will take care of review and testing.

> 
> In that case please add the following entry in MAINTAINERS:
> 
> L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> 
> 

Thank you,

Ioana

Re: Maintenance path for the fsl-mc bus

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025, at 14:46, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 18/03/2025 à 11:40, Ioana Ciornei a écrit :
>>
>> Christophe, would you be open to pick up patches for this bus driver
>> through your tree?
>
> Yes its fine for me to take it via my soc fsl subtree unless Arnd tells 
> different. But be aware that it will be purely administrative. I will 
> have no mean to check whether any changes are actually working properly.
>
> In that case please add the following entry in MAINTAINERS:
>
> L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org

Sounds good, thank you for helping out!

     Arnd