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

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:27 PM Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>
> > 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...
>
> It looks like the main thing that would be needed would be to add the P:
> entry with the path to our patch-acceptance.rst file into the MAINTAINERS
> file, after Dan's patches are merged.
>
> Of course, we could also add more information about sparse cleanliness,
> checkpatch warnings, etc., but we mostly try to follow the common kernel
> guidelines there.

Those could likely be automated to highlight warnings that a given
subsystem treats as errors, but wherever possible my expectation is
that the policy should be specified globally.

>
> Is that summary accurate, or did I miss some additional steps?
>

I'll go fixup and get the into patch submitted today then we can go from there.