[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update section for cpuidle-psci

Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson at linaro.org
Wed Sep 30 05:46:19 EDT 2020


On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 11:13, Lorenzo Pieralisi
<lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:44:53PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 10:11, Lorenzo Pieralisi
> > <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:49:52PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 2:37 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Extend the file pattern to also include cpuidle-psci.h and
> > > > > cpuidle-psci-domain.c. Moreover, add myself as a co-maintainer,
> > > > > particularly to help with the support for PM domains.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> > > > > Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi at arm.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>
> > > >
> > > > Any objections from the original maintainers?
> > >
> > > The PSCI driver providing support for platform coordinated idle states
> > > (that this patch is targeting AFAICS) does not require more maintainers,
> > > that support is complete and Sudeep and I will take care of refactoring
> > > and fixes.
> > >
> > > If the OSI bits in it require a specific maintainer I would prefer those
> > > bits to be moved into a specific file and maintainership added
> > > _explicitly_ for that file only.
> >
> > My main concern is that the OSI support (and some related changes for
> > genpd) is still being worked upon. The corresponding code deserves to
> > be looked after by someone. I offer my help with this.
>
> All OSI changes can go into cpuidle-psci-domain.c, you can add a
> maintainer entry for that.

Alright. Most of the things are already in there, but I will try to
move the rest as well then.

>
> > I guess we can split up the code as you suggest, but perhaps another
> > way would be to explicitly state my part of the responsibility in
> > MAINTAINERS. Along the lines of this:
> >
> > M:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> # OSI support / PM domains
> >
> > Would that be okay to you?
>
> No because there should be no need, as I have already said. If you need
> to change cpuidle-psci.c send patches please and we will review them.

I sent a small series "Enable s2idle when using PSCI OSI [1]" a month
ago, but haven't received any feedback. I guess moving all OSI parts
to cpuidle-psci-domain.c would help, as we wouldn't need to bother you
with these OSI specific things then.

[...]

Kind regards
Uffe

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https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg833933.html



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