From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com (perceval.ideasonboard.com [213.167.242.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 820F8286897; Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.167.242.64 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1766502201; cv=none; b=mkmAnMhdy7LxsMgdCY2VQOr6fDbZulHYsz1OUmyGRr5Y5enkD0FzLSZ+G8AAsZTasMVfOmAEavInVDvhuWPv/+Sjq2IKrcBf5/M8B9fjPdFDynnue1s81Y9gyqOZt9voOAW/awl+m/A91zgzay//rh6fMkHswyx2BrDq7lc8StY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1766502201; c=relaxed/simple; bh=+pdYS7oe+ITloB9NSURDJAUtEhD90+1rBYIWPa+W0+8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=FmhcSmULxO3qaiDCVsPVx2sqaf6cZym5jzpOT/Xu4sNfR8iMTAR9XmkcQDvR/jUlNEa+mY05bCNC7iupmigYzPMlkjtfVF5N5RbpAxA68BzFxkCXbzryXdXpFyCUrZR3d3Q1kYVXrGZ21aYKrLhmwE9DBXt7cSlNuvi2yzrJxYo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=ideasonboard.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ideasonboard.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=ideasonboard.com header.i=@ideasonboard.com header.b=OLQh1bYJ; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.167.242.64 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=ideasonboard.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ideasonboard.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=ideasonboard.com header.i=@ideasonboard.com header.b="OLQh1bYJ" Received: from pendragon.ideasonboard.com (81-175-209-152.bb.dnainternet.fi [81.175.209.152]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with UTF8SMTPSA id 02DA1833; Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:03:03 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1766502184; bh=+pdYS7oe+ITloB9NSURDJAUtEhD90+1rBYIWPa+W0+8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=OLQh1bYJiqifUkTNmfTC4646turpArYJ6YSdrSmenY5w2VVgKkX9J2qh5crWXqOCl MS7XBJ1XLKmdY+dAPNUiC/YpCONHhQVjUKXekH3f0cv6bnArHKjK4z4KQOtnGQ0ZVj v9+tbw0t1WWw14tj+cHvP77oIeqzhORHYSaquSi0= Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:02:56 +0200 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Alexandre Belloni , Linus Walleij , Drew Fustini , Jonathan Corbet , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, soc@lists.linux.dev, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Be more explicit about defconfig Message-ID: <20251223150256.GI9817@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> References: <20251223142726.73417-3-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251223142726.73417-3-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com> Hi Krzysztof, On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 03:27:27PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > It is already documented but people still send noticeable amount of > patches ignoring the rule - get_maintainers.pl does not work on > arm64/configs/defconfig or any other shared ARM defconfig. > > Be more explicit, that one must not rely on typical/simple approach > here for getting To/Cc list. > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski > > --- > > Incorrectly addressed patches for arm64/defconfig are around ~2 per month... > --- > Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst > index 3ba886f52a51..014c639022b2 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst > @@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ Submitting Patches for Given SoC > > All typical platform related patches should be sent via SoC submaintainers > (platform-specific maintainers). This includes also changes to per-platform or > -shared defconfigs (scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide correct > -addresses in such case). > +shared defconfigs. Note that scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide > +correct addresses for the shared defconfig, so ignore its output and manually > +create CC-list based on MAINTAINERS file or use something like > +``scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/soc/FOO/``). I fear this will be another piece of documentation that people won't read. It would be more effective to implement custom logic in get_maintainer.pl (or at least output an informative message). > > Submitting Patches to the Main SoC Maintainers > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart