linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for May 23 (sound/soc/codecs)

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Message-ID: <4DDB082F.3010107@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 18:21:51 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
CC:	x86@...nel.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Harald Welte <laforge@...fiish.org>,
	Dmitry Artamonow <mad_soft@...ox.ru>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for May 23 (sound/soc/codecs)

On 05/23/11 17:08, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:53:43PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 May 2011 06:47:28 +0800 Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> case, please talk to the architecture maintainers about this - it's an
>>> issue in the architecture GPIO support (or lack thereof) rather than a
>>> driver problem.
> 
>> except that a driver should not assume that defines like
>> GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW are always available.
> 
> No, really we should.  The GPIO APIs are stubbed out when not in use for
> a very good reason, think about the usability here.  The goal here isn't
> to litter the code with ifdefs - if architectures aren't able to keep up
> with API changes they should convert to using gpiolib so this stuff
> happens automatically (indeed, I can't think of any good reason for an
> architecture to not be using gpiolib at this point).

No, I would say that there are a lot of drivers in sound/soc/codecs/
that are missing some GPIO pieces in the Kconfig file.

>>> Also adding Dmitry who submitted the driver - Randy, please try to
>>> remember to CC relevant people.
> 
>> Which driver did Dmitry submit?  how would I know that?
>> I don't download every linux-next git tree -- just linux-next tarballs.
> 
> I *strongly* suggest looking at git if you want to find relevant people
> to mail; the internal documentation in the code really isn't a terribly
> useful guide, the authors listed in the code often bear no relation to
> who's actually working on it at the current time.
> 
>> and wm8915.c says:
>> MODULE_AUTHOR("Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>");
> 
> You've clearly not looked at MAINTAINERS for this one.

It's not listed in the MAINTAINERS file.
But maybe you mean scripts/get_maintainer.pl, which I did try.
I found that using git log <that source file name> was better info
than using scripts/get_maintainer.pl.


-- 
~Randy
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