On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 07:50:25PM +0000, ZHIZHIKIN Andrey wrote:

From Krzysztof Kozlowski [off-list ref]:

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 03:21:33PM +0000, Andrey Zhizhikin wrote:

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Commit 7ecdea4a0226 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it is
unused") removed geenric_bl driver from the tree, together with
corresponding config option.

Remove BACKLIGHT_GENERIC config item from all ARM configurations.

Fixes: 7ecdea4a0226 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it
is unused")
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhizhikin
[off-list ref]
---
 arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig        | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/cm_x300_defconfig        | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/colibri_pxa300_defconfig | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/jornada720_defconfig     | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/magician_defconfig       | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/mini2440_defconfig       | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig      | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/pxa3xx_defconfig         | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig           | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/sama5_defconfig          | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/sunxi_defconfig          | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig          | 1 -
 arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig          | 1 -
 13 files changed, 13 deletions(-)

You need to send it to arm-soc maintainers, otherwise no one might feel
responsible enough to pick it up.

Good point, thanks a lot!

I was not aware of the fact that there is a separate ML that should
receive patches targeted ARM SOCs. Can you (or anyone else) please
share it, so I can re-send it there as well?

It's not a mailing list as such (with archives etc.), just an alias to
the arm-soc maintainers: arm@kernel.org.

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Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>

+CC Arnd and Olof,

Dear Arnd and Olof,

Maybe it is worth to add arm-soc entry to the MAINTAINERS file?
Otherwise how one could get your email address? Not mentioning the
secret-soc address. :)

I tried to convince them before, it didn't work. I guess they don't like
to be spammed ;). Or rather, SoC-specific patches, even to defconfig,
should go through the specific SoC maintainers. However, there are
occasional defconfig patches which are more generic or affecting
multiple SoCs. I just ignore them as the arm64 defconfig is usually
handled by the arm-soc folk (when I need a defconfig change, I go for
arch/arm64/Kconfig directly ;)).

Anyway, I still think that we should add a MAINTAINERS entry for
arch/arm64/configs/defconfig and arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms.

-- 
Catalin

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