Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] Misc sam460ex improvements

[BALATON Zoltan]

Hello,

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:52:15AM +0200, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> > Next spin of sam460ex pathces with changes according to review and
> > some new patches.
>
> So, the sm501 patches I don't really have the technical knowledge to
> review, and I'm a little uncomfortable taking them through my tree,
> since they aren't strictly related to ppc.

OK, since the sm501 is also used on SH it's not PPC only so I think you 
can ignore them for now and just take the other patches and I can submit 
the sm501 related patches as a separate series (although all these changes 
are to improve sam460ex emulation).

> It looks like you're the only person that's made substantive changes
> to sm501 lately, though.  So, given I haven't heard screaming, I think
> it's fair to assume that either you know what you're doing, or you're
> the only person that cares about sm501 anyway.
>
> So, I think we should make you sm501 maintainer.

I don't feel confident enough to take on maintainership of this device but 
hope maybe Peter could help as he did before to get the patches in not 
involving your tree.

> Specifically I think you should:
>  * Fix the compile breakage I pointed out elsewhere

Thanks, I'll check and fix this.

>  * Split out your sm501 patches

OK, as above I'll send these as separate series, you can ignore all sm501: 
prefixed patches from this v4 series.

>  * Prepend a patch adding it to MAINTAINERS with yourself as
>    maintainer (whether you call it "Maintained" or "Odd Fixes" is up
>    to your level of dedication)
>  * Send this new series direct to Peter Maydell, CC me, Gerd Hoffman
>    <address@hidden> and the SH maintainer(s) (as well as the lists
>    and whoever else you think's appropriate)
>  * I'll reply, making the case above to Peter for your
>    maintainership.
>
> With any luck, from there on you'll be able to send sm501 pull
> requests directly.

But if there's an other way I'd rather cc those people for review and to 
take care of pull requests without me becoming maintainer as I don't have 
any experience with that.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan