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 09B172874FF; Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:28:17 +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=1766507300; cv=none; b=aqqADs0AZHL9P2p0ftPynhcnGukskuJSzsnjIfa3/Wcr7x9r+BDdTmShLYG3zui3XtLI2uYT/CYO3cyh6sFGTAkJPfjtS54n3ZI+kOTqdtGjuuELAPFlzJL/yKbfaT5H6o8TpmhI3qHyYdCnkUOmrxF4e5OSwpePkbQCZq9cEbA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1766507300; c=relaxed/simple; bh=1F2Zj+2njSt5moO8g4iGnH+134BmLjJduhFI1MxZQIU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=WUj5JW1O3utQS4TpuW8Nxcse9bbaCFok2u0DL4CXNeZz6Wd8/y7gGsjw3HeTg82b9y9cdU8QrySXdJK+B3IyWXDMYlT0dtPJfBSuHEc0w10/OVKFdUp5IzQpniq6UhT4zNsMJ8vLFHmTA/6rSkLRyh0z1DjTgANyVxMm7RUbac8= 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=T+qbUMU3; 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="T+qbUMU3" Received: from pendragon.ideasonboard.com (81-175-209-152.bb.dnainternet.fi [81.175.209.152]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with UTF8SMTPSA id D969182E; Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:28:03 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1766507284; bh=1F2Zj+2njSt5moO8g4iGnH+134BmLjJduhFI1MxZQIU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=T+qbUMU3hgOB1+QcSutEoG0hGWuDWUahwdRdFj4iuM7C9uu6y1XByC4DvM7qCKHrF D3qcdBj9rYE8aT1pWbsWEGrzwhsKPh70nbs2sq/qjJ59hv40EdOLl8vh1f09chPLZZ U0F0wI3wpfvn3xwhf49X3ndFpt+b8f+Cgmn1LG5g= Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:27:56 +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: <20251223162756.GA25011@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> References: <20251223142726.73417-3-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com> <20251223150256.GI9817@pendragon.ideasonboard.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: On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 04:32:02PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 23/12/2025 16:02, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > 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). > > Part of the logic is already there, but I will not grow that - I don't > want to touch Perl code. It's pretty obvious the tool should be do it, > so feel free to fix it. Even if I knew perl, I'd have no time :-) > No point however to stop proper documentation. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart