Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: document dtbs_check requirement for Samsung

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Wed Jul 12 2023 - 07:46:30 EST


On 12/07/2023 11:48, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:41:31AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> Samsung ARM/ARM64 SoCs (except legacy S5PV210) are also expected not to
>> bring any new dtbs_check warnings. In fact this have been already
>> enforced and tested since few release.
>>
>> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>
>> Not sure where to document this. Creating new maintainer profile for
>> Samsung SoC would be an overkill. OTOH, more SoCs might want to grow
>> this list, so this also scales poor.
>
> To me, this portion of the document was "information to the
> submaintainer", which would be you, not information to the contributors
> to the platform. Adding the comment about Samsung SoC seems aimed at
> contributors?

Yes, I want to document it for contributors, so they won't be surprised.
Any hints where to store it? I could put it in the "About" tab of my
kernel.org repo, but no one checks this for contribution guidelines.

Best regards,
Krzysztof