[PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: clarify submitting patches

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 24/09/2024 15:19, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 03:08:31PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 
>>  Most of these submaintainers have their own trees where they stage patches,
>>  sending pull requests to the main SoC tree.  These trees are usually, but not
>> -always, listed in MAINTAINERS.  The main SoC maintainers can be reached via the
>> -alias soc at kernel.org if there is no platform-specific maintainer, or if they
>> -are unresponsive.
>> +always, listed in MAINTAINERS.
> 
> I probably had some specific case in mind with that original wording. I
> presume it still holds true for some smaller platforms, but I cannot
> remember the specific case that prompted it. I'll have to see if I can
> figure out which platforms they are (if any) and get the tree added.
> 
> Cheers,
> Conor.
> 
>>  What the SoC tree is not, however, is a location for architecture-specific code
>>  changes.  Each architecture has its own maintainers that are responsible for
>>  architectural details, CPU errata and the like.
>>  
>> +Submitting Patches for Given SoC
>> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> +
>> +All usual platform related patches should be sent via SoC submaintainers
>> +(platform-specific maintainers.  This includes also changes to per-platform or
>    ^ this is unclosed.

Ack. I have v2 with minor text changes in other places as well. I will
send soon.

Best regards,
Krzysztof