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[217.229.169.228]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d20sm3847873edt.32.2020.10.08.05.32.58 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Oct 2020 05:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] platform/surface: Create a platform subdirectory for Microsoft Surface devices To: Hans de Goede , 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: Maximilian Luz Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 14:32:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. I'll add the MAINTAINERS entry and send a v3 later today, if that's OK. Regards, Max