[PATCH v3 0/2] soc: hisilicon: Support HCCS driver on Kunpeng SoC

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Tue Jul 18 03:59:43 PDT 2023


On 18/07/2023 10:07, lihuisong (C) wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> 
> 在 2023/7/17 20:06, Krzysztof Kozlowski 写道:
>> On 14/07/2023 08:17, lihuisong (C) wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Can you take a look at this series?
>> People you listed in "To:" field are not maintainers of HiSilicon, so
>> why pinging us?
> This "To:" field are from the get_maintainer.pl script.
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ./drivers/soc/

Which is not really correct. Why would you send it to maintainers of
Samsung or NXP?

> The hisilicon in drivers/soc/ is created for the first time. So there 
> are no maintainer of HiSilicon.

There are. Open MAINTAINERS file, use search and voila.

> 
> Thanks for reminder.
> add HiSilicon SOC maintainer Wei Xu.
>>
>> HiSilicon DTS has numerous issues, so if you want to increase the
>> chances anyone cares about your patch, please contribute to fixing and
>> improving your company DTS. See for example commit b2bbc8687 which is
>> bad (underscores are not allowed) or 1860a51823 which is just wrong. The
>> latter one is being fixed, although I do not see the fix being picked
>> up... my feelings are the platform is just dead.
> The HCCS driver has nothing to do with HiSilicon DTS.
> So I cannot understand why you say DTS.

I grunted about poor support for HiSilicon. Because both - HiSilicon DTS
and HiSilicon SoC HCCS driver - are for HiSilicon.

Now, why don't you help the maintainers review/fix stuff so they will
have more time for your patch?

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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