Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/6] tty: serial: meson: Drop the legacy compatible
 strings and clock code
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
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        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>,
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From:   Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
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Date:   Mon, 3 Jan 2022 16:29:56 +0100
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Hi Greg,
On 03/01/2022 16:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 03:59:33PM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Martin just saw this patch was applied, but the serie wasn't reviewed enough and it will break
>> earlycon support on the ARMv7 Amlogic SoCs fore 5.17.
> 
> Ok, what should I revert?

None, we have a fix in the pipe

> 
>> Anyway, I'll push the corresponding DT fixes for 5.17-rc1.
> 
> How did we get out of sync here?

The serie wasn't fully reviewed, and I was out of office when it was applied.

> 
>> Would it be possible we also receive the notification when those patches are applied ?
>> Maybe a MAINTAINERS entry is missing so we can receive them ?
> 
> That would be good, so that people can review the patches.  Otherwise I
> have to just guess :)

exact, I naively thought it would be matched in the:
N:      meson
entry but it seems an proper entry for drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c is needed.

> 
>> It would help me track those TTY and USB patches more easily.
> 
> I recommend MAINTAINERS entries for drivers that are not listed and that
> you care about seeing the changes for.

This is why we have a regex to match these.

I can submit a patch to have a proper entry if the regex is not enough/appropriate.

BTW can you point us how are selected the recipients of the notification messages you send ?

Thanks,
Neil

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>