Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: clarify submitting patches

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> writes:

> Patches for SoCs are expected to be picked up by SoC submaintainers.
> The main SoC maintainers should be addressed only in few cases.
>
> Rewrite the section about maintainer handling to document above
> expectation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
> Cc: Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de>
>
> ---
>
> During our LPC ad-hoc BoF, we discussed improving Maintainer SoC docs
> and I think I volunteered to write something.  The trouble is that
> whatever I won't write in my notes, escapes my memory.
>
> I believe this is what we discussed.  Was there anything more to
> write/document?
>
> Changes in v2:
> 1. Fix missing closing ) (Conor).
> 2. Style changes (in point 3.).
> 3. Soften note that soc@kernel is not for discussing ("is usually not").
> ---
>  Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon