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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:09:26 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] arm64: defconfig: Enable AM654x SDHCI controller
To:     Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 1:20 PM Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com> wrote:
> On 17/07/2020 11:38, Faiz Abbas wrote:
> > On 16/07/20 11:58 pm, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:25 PM Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> wrote:
> >> I tend to ignore individual patches to the defconfig file unless
> >> they are sent to:soc@kernel.org. The best way to get them
> >> included is to have the platform maintainers pick up the
> >> changes and send them that way as a separate pull request
> >> at the same time as sending any DT updates.
> >>
> >> The MAINTAINERS file lists Tero and Nishanth as maintainers
> >> for the platform. If they want, I can apply this one directly, but in
> >> the future, send it to them.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for clarifying Arnd. Tero, can you pick this up?
>
> Ok, this topic has been bit unclear for me also, but if you say I can
> pick the patches myself and send a pull request out, I can do that.

Right. To clarify, the soc tree usually has separate branches for dts
files, soc specific drivers, defconfig files and 32-bit platform code.

When you pick up patches into your tree, please put them into
branches that fit into those categories. You can group the patches
into branches with more fine-grained categories if it makes sense
(e.g. adding a particularly large driver, adding a new dts files for a
new soc, or cosmetic cleanups across dts files).

If any of the categories only have a couple of patches in them, you
can decide to forward those as patches to soc@kernel.org, but a
pull request is always ok as well, even for a one-line patch.

        Arnd

       Arnd