linux-kernel - [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:50:35 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@...ricsson.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Robert Morell <rmorell@...dia.com>,
	Dilan Lee <dilee@...dia.com>, Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>,
	Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

Since the pwm-backlight driver is lacking a proper maintainer and is the
heaviest user of the PWM framework I'm taking over maintenance.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
Cc: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@...ricsson.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Cc: Robert Morell <rmorell@...dia.com>
Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@...dia.com>
Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@...aro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---
Andrew: As previously discussed this patch makes me the new maintainer
for the pwm-backlight driver. I contacted Richard Purdie and requested
his Acked-by for this because he's the backlight subsystem maintainer.
Unfortunately he hasn't answered yet. Looking at the commit log, every
commit in the last 2+ years has gone through your tree, which seems to
be reason enough for me to take over this driver but I still wanted to
get an Acked-by at least from you so that this doesn't look like
hijacking. I've also Cc'ed a couple of people that have done work on
the driver in the past to give them a chance to object or send their
Acked-by.

Obviously I will take this patch through my tree so this is not a
request to include it in your tree.

 MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 61ad79e..a6f023e 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5543,6 +5543,8 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/
 F:	include/linux/pwm.h
 F:	include/linux/of_pwm.h
 F:	drivers/pwm/
+F:	drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
+F:	include/linux/pwm_backlight.h
 
 PXA2xx/PXA3xx SUPPORT
 M:	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
-- 
1.7.12

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