linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/14] MAINTAINERS: remove arch/arm/plat-nomadik/

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Date:	Thu, 7 Mar 2013 03:35:45 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...pv.it>,
	Srinidhi Kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@...ricsson.com>,
	STEricsson <STEricsson_nomadik_linux@...t.st.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] MAINTAINERS: remove arch/arm/plat-nomadik/

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net> wrote:

> The files within that directory were moved to other places over the
> course of several commits. I only added the ones moved in the patch
> series which finally removed the directory; untangling the rest will
> take more work, since some seem to be shared with ux500.
>
> In fact, the ARM/Ux500 ARM ARCHITECTURE block has patterns for files
> named "nomadik" too. The patterns in this pair of MAINTAINER blocks
> really need a review from the respective maintainters.
>
> Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...pv.it>
> Cc: Srinidhi Kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@...ricsson.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Cc: STEricsson <STEricsson_nomadik_linux@...t.st.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>

Thanks for doing this Cesar!

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

The reason some drivers are named "Nomadik" is that that
platform was the first using that IP block, but in some cases
like drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nomadik.c the original platform has
not yet been migrated to it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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