[PATCH v6 00/10] Axiado AX3000 SoC and Evaluation Board Support

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Jul 21 07:31:37 PDT 2025


On Sun, Jul 20, 2025, at 14:09, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 19/07/2025 03:09, Harshit Shah wrote:
>> On 7/17/2025 11:14 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> 
>> It mentions about the special case where "Introducing a completely new 
>> SoC platform." we can submit patches to soc at kernel.org directly.
>> 
>> However I see two different points in the doc.
>> 
>> 1. Submitting patches directly to soc at kernel.org with email
>> 
>> 2. There is also mention about the "Branches and Pull requests"
>> 
>> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst?h=v6.16-rc1#n186). 
>> 
>> 
>> I think if we need to use this approach then we need to create a new 
>> branch on soc and create a pull request based on the same. (with the soc 
>> tree[1])
>
> You do not create branches on other poeple's trees (like soc). You
> create branch on your own tree.

Yes, ideally the base should be -rc1, as for any other pull request.

> You can go with 1 or 2, up to you, I don't know which one is preferred
> by Arnd for new boards.

Separate patches (1) tend to work better for the first contribution
from a new maintainer, since there is less to know in advance.

      Arnd



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