Message-ID: <d10fe31b2af6cf4e03618f38ca9d3ca5c72601ed.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: remove arch/sh
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc:     Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
        devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
        dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
        linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
        linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:29:27 +0100
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Hi Christoph!

On Fri, 2023-02-03 at 09:30 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 09:24:46AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Since this is my very first time stepping up as a kernel maintainer, I was hoping
> > to get some pointers on what to do to make this happen.
> > 
> > So far, we have set up a new kernel tree and I have set up a local development and
> > test environment for SH kernels using my SH7785LCR board as the target platform.
> > 
> > Do I just need to send a patch asking to change the corresponding entry in the
> > MAINTAINERS file?
> 
> I'm not sure a there is a document, but:
> 
>  - add the MAINTAINERS change to your tree
>  - ask Stephen to get your tree included in linux-next
> 
> then eventually send a pull request to Linus with all of that.  Make
> sure it's been in linux-next for a while.

OK, thanks for the pointers! Will try to get this done by next week.

We're still discussing among SuperH developer community whether there will be a second
maintainer, so please bear with us a few more days. I will collect patches in the
meantime.

Adrian

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