Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Innosilicon hdmi bridge library

[Maud Spierings]

Hi Andy,

On 10/17/25 10:56, Andy Yan wrote:
> Hello Maud，
>
> At 2025-10-17 15:58:22, "Maud Spierings" <maud_spierings@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > > From: Andy Yan <andy.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Add entry for Innosilicon hdmi bridge library
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andy Yan <andy.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > (no changes since v1)
> > >
> > >   MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index f9f985c7d7479..0adcfb1c264a1 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -12299,6 +12299,14 @@ M:	Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >   S:	Maintained
> > >   F:	drivers/power/supply/ip5xxx_power.c
> > >   
> > > +INNOSILICON HDMI BRIDGE DRIVER
> > > +M:	Andy Yan <andy.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > +L:	dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > +S:	Maintained
> > > +T:	git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
> > > +F:	drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/inno-hdmi.c
> > > +F:	include/drm/bridge/inno_hdmi.h
> > > +
> > >   INOTIFY
> > >   M:	Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > >   R:	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > --
> > > 2.43.0
> > I believe this patch should be squashed into the patch that actually
> > creates the files listed in the MAINTAINERS entry, like I do here [1].
> > Checkpatch should be complaining about patch [1/2] if I'm not mistaken,
> > when you run `b4 prep --check`.
> We talked about something similar here[2]：
> Maxime believes they should be separate patches,
> And I've seen many merged commits in the kernel are also handle MAINTAINERS entry as separate patches
>
>
> [2]https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/3ygqnj4idey7u4m7ltlv7pnfhkkvcepmpfdijdszctaeopq3ky@qteg33comjl3/

It seems there are indeed opinions about this [3], guess whatever the 
actual maintainer wants is what will happen, sorry to disturb.


Would be nice to get some central guideline about how it should be.


[3] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/51b72003-e9a5-4f34-ad08-249fc24b3041@xxxxxxxxxx/

> > Link:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251009-max25014-v4-1-6adb2a0aa35f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > [1]
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Maud