Are people from linux-mediatek also interested in Mediatek MIPS SoCs? [Was: [PATCH] staging: mt7621-dts: add dt node for 2nd/3rd uart on mt7621]

Chuanhong Guo gch981213 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 07:53:01 UTC 2020


On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 6:37 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 05:59:21PM +0800, Chuanhong Guo wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:47 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Please use ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl to pick the CC list and resend.
> > >
> > > The MAINTAINERS file says Matthias Brugger is supposed to be CC'd and
> > > a couple other email lists.
> >
> > According to get_maintainer.pl,  Matthias Brugger is the maintainer of
> > Mediatek ARM SoC:
> >
> > Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg at gmail.com> (maintainer:ARM/Mediatek SoC support)
> > linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support)
> > linux-mediatek at lists.infradead.org (moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support)
> >
> > I specifically removed the above 3 addresses because they are all for
> > Mediatek ARM chips
> > while mt7621 is a mips chip and belongs to ralink target under
> > /arch/mips/mach-ralink.
> > Code contribution for mt7621 goes through linux-mips instead of
> > linux-arm or linux-mediatek,
>
> I would have thought that we would still CC linux-mediatek?
>
> >
> > I thinks this is an incorrect setup of get_maintainer.pl and should be
> > corrected.
>
> We could ask him...
>
> It's always easiest to fix MAINTAINERS instead of remembering all the
> exceptions and rules.

Hi Matthias and other folks on linux-mediatek:

I noticed that get_maintainers.pl reports "ARM/Mediatek SoC support"
e-mail addreses for MTK MIPS SoCs (mt7620/mt7621/mt76x8) because of
"mt[678]" name match in MAINTAINERS file.
This is confusing because these MIPS SoCs clearly don't fall into
"ARM" category. Is this an incorrect match or is it intentional? If
it's intentional I think we should remove the confusing ARM prefix,
and if it's incorrect we may need to figure out how to exclude
mt7620/mt7621/mt76x8 from "ARM/Mediatek SoC support".

Regards,
Chuanhong Guo


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