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

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Message-ID: <F45880696056844FA6A73F415B568C695B44DDE234@EXDCVYMBSTM006.EQ1STM.local>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:59:48 +0200
From:	Arun MURTHY <arun.murthy@...ricsson.com>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	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: RE: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take 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.

Acked-by: Arun Murthy<arun.murthy@...ricsson.com>

I hope now the review process will be fast instead of going through Andrew's
tree.
All the Best!
Now I think I can re-start my pwm core driver thread, since I have a maintainer
for this :-)

Thanks and Regards,
Arun R Murthy
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