Hi Sean, Hi Arnd,

+Eddie who pinged me about this in a private mail.


2017-05-08 13:36 GMT+02:00 Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref]:

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Sean Wang [off-list ref] wrote:

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Hi Rob,

thanks for helping me looping in the right group


Hi Arnd and Olof

I found Matthias is inactive for a while (his branch in his tree seemed
to stop at 4.10 since the end of February) maybe he was busy at other
things. Is there a good way to break the stuck situation and keeping
linux-mediatek moving on?

I have the willing to fork his tree, prepare dt-for-4.12 and send
pull-requests to you.

Hi Sean,

Thanks for offering to help out. I've added Matthias' other email address
to Cc here, let's see if he notices the discussion now. Ideally any
important platform should have multiple maintainers so there is
always a backup person when the primary contact is unavailable
for any reason.

I'm not sure how much we can still do for 4.12, if you can prepare a
branch now we can definitely have a look and see what we can
realistically take for a late merge, but as we are in the second half
of the merge window already, we would normally put new features
into a 4.13 branch and only take bug fixes for 4.12. If there are
some entirely new files for additional boards, or only small changes
to the existing files, we might make an exception this time.

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But I am worried in that way violating the reviewing process if
Matthias no reads it.

Don't worry about that at the moment, if Matthias cannot be reached
at all, we have to find an alternative way to get patches in.

I'm very sorry for the situation. Actually I was struggling lately to
do my maintainer work in an acceptable manner. And this merge window I
definitely wasn't able to follow the discussions. I hope that this
will change in the very near future.

I would propose to send a merge request or a summary with the relevant
patches now and I will look at it today and forward them to Arnd.
For the future we should start to think about who could step-in as
co-maintainer to avoid situation like this.

Once again, sorry for the inconvenience,
Matthias

        Arnd

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On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 08:52 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:

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+arm-soc

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Sean Wang [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 15:37 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:

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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 05:26:13PM +0800, sean.wang at mediatek.com wrote:

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From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>

Banana Pi team in Sinovoip Co., Limited which are dedicated to
design and manufacture open hardware product.

Website: http://www.banana-pi.org/

Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
index ec0bfb9..8ca0f3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ avia      avia semiconductor
 avic       Shanghai AVIC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
 axentia    Axentia Technologies AB
 axis       Axis Communications AB
+bananapi Banana Pi SINOVOP CO., LIMITED

s/SINOVOP/SINOVOIP/

Hi Rob,

thanks for your careful reviewing , i will correct it in the next
version.

BTW, Could those related dts changes go through your tree if everything
looks good? Because I find Matthias have been inactive for a while and
the latest branch in his tree seems still staying on 4.10.

Happy to take binding doc changes, but I don't take dts changes
because those go thru arm-soc. If the platform maintainer is not
responsive, then we should replace or add maintainers.

Rob

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