[PATCH v2] Documentation/process: add soc maintainer handbook

Conor Dooley conor at kernel.org
Tue May 30 15:26:22 PDT 2023


Hey Randy,

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 08:28:44AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 5/30/23 05:49, Conor Dooley wrote:

> >  Recommended is also to install yamllint (used by dtschema when present).
> 
> I don't see anything in Documentation/ about where to find yamllint...
> please.

Sounds like an unrelated fix to me ;)

> submaintainers and sub-directories ? hm.

I had sub-maintainers before being asked to change! I think that
subdirectories is correct though & the hyphenated form is incorrect.

> > +named $soc.dtsi, for example, jh7100.dtsi.  Integration details, that will vary
> > +from board to board, are described in $soc-$board.dtsi.  An example of this is
> > +jh7100-beaglev-starlight.dts.  Often many boards are variations on a theme, and
> 
>                             ^^^ Why not dtsi, like the sentence before says?
> or is the $soc-$board.dtsi wrong?

$soc-$board.dtsi is wrong.

> > +Another common way to split up changes is to send an early pull request with the
> > +majority of the changes at some point between rc1 and rc4, following up with one
> > +or more smaller pull requests towards the end of the cycle that can add late
> > +changes or address problems idenfied while testing the first set.
> 
>                                identified

Surprised nvim didn't whinge about that one.

Thanks for pointing out the wee mistakes all over the place,
Conor.
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