Re: [PATCH] Documentation: riscv: add patch acceptance guidelines

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Sat Nov 23 2019 - 11:39:43 EST


On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:44:39 -0800 (PST)
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Formalize, in kernel documentation, the patch acceptance policy for
> arch/riscv. In summary, it states that as maintainers, we plan to only
> accept patches for new modules or extensions that have been frozen or
> ratified by the RISC-V Foundation.
>
> We've been following these guidelines for the past few months. In the
> meantime, we've received quite a bit of feedback that it would be
> helpful to have these guidelines formally documented.

If at all possible, I would really love to have this be part of the
maintainer profile documentation:

https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/156821692280.2951081.18036584954940423225.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

...if we could only (hint...CC'd...) get Dan to resubmit it with the
needed tweaks so it could be merged...

Thanks,

jon