Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 May 2017 18:14:02 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add as the list for arm64 defconfig changes |
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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 12:08:21PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On 05/03/2017 12:01 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 11:31:25AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > >> > Any changes to arch/arm64/configs/defconfig must be sent to arm@kernel.org, > >> > otherwise they will not get picked up. Add a MAINTAINERS entry to ensure > >> > the get_maintainers includes it. > > There are other patches that go through arm@kernel.org like > > arch/arm64/boot/dts/ but the arm-soc guys didn't want a MAINTAINERS > > entry (I don't remember the reasons). > > I'm happy to add additional paths/files, but without a MAINTAINERS entry, > how would anyone know to CC: that address? I posted 3 versions of my > defconfig patchset before someone told me that I had to send it to > arm@kernel.org.
Most of the time it's the arm-soc guys pushing changes to defconfig, though on occasion the arm64 maintainers make some changes as well.
> Anyway, I really hope it's not too late for my defconfig changes to make > 4.12. Please consider them. Thank you.
I'm usually fine with such updates immediately after -rc1 but I can't speak for the arm-soc folk.
-- Catalin
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