[PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: add entry for the Broadcom Northstar Plus SoCs

Jon Mason jonmason at broadcom.com
Wed Aug 26 12:00:46 PDT 2015


On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Jon Mason <jonmason at broadcom.com> wrote:
> > Modify the iProc MAINTAINER to cover the Nortstar Plus SoCs, and add me
> > to the list of people responsible for it.
> 
> That's not what this patch does. It removes CYGNUS from the
> description as well. Hmm?

iProc is a family of SoCs that includes Cygnus, Northstar (BCM5301X),
Northstar Plus, Northstar 2, and a number of other platforms.  I
removed the "Cygnus" for that reason.

> 
> I'm also not a fan of the complex patterns, but that's more of a
> bikeshedding comment. Does Broadcom really not have a bit more
> systematic naming than this? :)

Per Florian's comment, it's a bit of a mess internally.

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jonmason at broadcom.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
> 
> For maintainer updates, we usuallu like to see a public ack of this
> and not just a pre-acked patch. You _could_ have added it yourself
> without Scott's actual approval, after all.

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> 
> -Olof



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