[PATCH 9/9] MAINTAINERS: add Black Sesame Technologies (BST) ARM SoC support
Albert Yang
yangzh0906 at thundersoft.com
Wed Oct 15 00:30:14 PDT 2025
Hi Adrian,
Thank you for the review and feedback!
On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:29:25PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 23/09/2025 09:10, Albert Yang wrote:
> > +ARM/BST SOC SUPPORT
> > +M: Ge Gordon <gordon.ge at bst.ai>
> > +R: BST Linux Kernel Upstream Group <bst-upstream at bstai.top>
> > +L: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> > +S: Maintained
>
> Seems like it is "Supported" rather than "Maintained" ?
>
> S: *Status*, one of the following:
> Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this.
> Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
> Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
> much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
> Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
> role as you write your new code].
> Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
> it has been replaced by a better system and you
> should be using that.> The status should likely be "Supported" rather than "Maintained"
> based on the MAINTAINERS guidelines.
You're absolutely right. "Supported" is more appropriate for this
vendor-supported hardware. I will update the STATUS field to
"Supported" in next of the patch series.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Best regards,
Albert Yang
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