Re: [PATCH 15/15] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for NUVOTON MA35

From: Tomer Maimon
Date: Sun Mar 19 2023 - 08:36:28 EST


Hi Jacky and Arnd

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 14:01, Jacky Huang <ychuang570808@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear Arnd,
>
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
>
> On 2023/3/16 下午 10:38, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, at 08:29, Jacky Huang wrote:
> >> From: Jacky Huang <ychuang3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Add entry for Nuvton ma35d1 maintainer and files
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jacky Huang <ychuang3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/*/*nuvoton*
> >> +F: arch/arm64/boot/dts/nuvoton/
> > This clashes with the existing entry for NPCM, so
> > contributors can easily get confused about where
> > to send their dts patches.
> >
> > I don't have a good solution here, but maybe you can
> > discuss this with the npcm maintainers (added to Cc)
> > to see how they would like to handle this.
> >
> > For me, the easiest way would be to have a single
> > maintainer send me all the patches for both ma35d1
> > and npcm, but that may not be practical for you.
>
>
> All I can do so far is, once we receive a patch for npcm,
>
> forward it to the maintainers of npcm, and the npcm side
We can forward ma35 DTS emails to you as well.
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> does the same.
>
> And I would like to modify it as
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> +F: arch/arm64/boot/dts/nuvoton/*ma35*
About modify
F: arch/arm64/boot/dts/nuvoton/
to
F: arch/arm64/boot/dts/nuvoton/*npcm*
We can't guarantee that our customers will use npcm in the dts files name.
>
> >> +F: drivers/*/*/*ma35d1*
> >> +F: drivers/*/*ma35d1*
> >> +F: include/dt-bindings/*/*ma35d1*
> >> +F: include/linux/mfd/ma35d1-sys.h
> > I would replace these with a single line
> >
> > K: ma35d1
> >
> > that should have the same effect.
> >
> > Arnd
>
>
> It's fine. I will use K: instead. Thank you.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jacky Huang
>
>

Thanks,

Tomer