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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:32:23 +0200
From: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>
To: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>
Cc: 'Doug Anderson' <dianders@...omium.org>,
'Stephen Rothwell' <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
'linux-samsung-soc' <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
'Linus Walleij' <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
'Olof Johansson' <olof@...om.net>,
'Mauro Carvalho Chehab' <mchehab@...hat.com>,
'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
'Cesar Eduardo Barros' <cesarb@...arb.net>,
"'David S. Miller'" <davem@...emloft.net>,
'Hans Verkuil' <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
'Thomas Abraham' <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Samsung pinctrl entries
On Friday 14 of June 2013 07:22:53 Kukjin Kim wrote:
> Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 of June 2013 10:25:02 Doug Anderson wrote:
> > > Tomasz,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Tomasz Figa
> > > <tomasz.figa@...il.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 13 of June 2013 10:05:44 Doug Anderson wrote:
> > > >> It's convenient if get_maintainer suggests sending samsung/exynos
> > > >> pinctrl changes to linux-samsung-soc and to Kukjin. Add an entry
> > > >> for
> > > >> that.
> > > >
> > > > Well, if we are already at it, we could list the actual
> > > > maintainers of
> > > > the driver.
> > > >
> > > > The original maintainer was Thomas Abraham
> > > > <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>
> > > > (added to CC) and after joining to development of this driver last
> > > > year I have become a de facto maintainer as well, so...
> > > >
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> > > >> ---
> > > >>
> > > >> MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++
> > > >> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > > >>
> > > >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > >> index 8d97b3e..d026e38 100644
> > > >> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > >> @@ -6284,6 +6284,16 @@ L:
> > > >> linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> > > >> (moderated for non-subscribers) S: Maintained
> > > >>
> > > >> F: drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c
> > > >>
> > > >> +PIN CONTROLLER - SAMSUNG
> > > >> +M: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> > > >> +M: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>
> > > >
> > > > So actually this would be:
> > > > M: Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>
> > > > M: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>
> > > >
> > > > Thomas, do you agree on this?
> > >
> > > Ah. Wasn't sure where the official maintainership should lie. ;)
> > > If
> > > Thomas is happy with this then I'll spin and re-send. Shall I
> > > remove
> > > Kukjin and Linus, then? It's convenient to have Linus on the list
> > > since he tends to be the one applying the patches...
> >
> > From my understanding how it works, there is no need to list Linus in
> > particular drivers, because he's already listed as a maintainer of the
> > whole pinctrl subsystem and get-maintainer accounts for this.
> >
> > Similarly for Kukjin, he's listed as the main Samsung maintainer
> > already,
> If so, the directory like pinctrl should be added under Samsung ARM
> Architectures like spi and sound for Samsung stuff...
I don't think so, because it's a part of the pin control subsystem.
> > but AFAIK in this case the script can't infer this based on directory
>
> > structure. Let's see how it's done for other Samsung drivers:
> Well, I don't think so, because pinctrl has the close relationship with
> exynos arch part and it's little bit different with following. Just in
> my understanding.
I'm not really sure what you mean. Pin control is a separate kernel
subsystem, which shouldn't have any dependencies on arch code.
> > DRM DRIVERS FOR EXYNOS
> > M: Inki Dae <inki.dae@...sung.com>
> > M: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@...sung.com>
> > M: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@...sung.com>
> > M: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
> > L: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
> > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daeinki/drm-
> > exynos.git
> > S: Supported
> > F: drivers/gpu/drm/exynos
> > F: include/drm/exynos*
> > F: include/uapi/drm/exynos*
> >
> > EXYNOS DP DRIVER
> > M: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
> > L: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
> > S: Maintained
> > F: drivers/video/exynos/exynos_dp*
> > F: include/video/exynos_dp*
> >
> > EXYNOS MIPI DISPLAY DRIVERS
> > M: Inki Dae <inki.dae@...sung.com>
> > M: Donghwa Lee <dh09.lee@...sung.com>
> > M: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
> > L: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
> > S: Maintained
> > F: drivers/video/exynos/exynos_mipi*
> > F: include/video/exynos_mipi*
> >
> > ARM/SAMSUNG S5P SERIES 2D GRAPHICS ACCELERATION (G2D) SUPPORT
> > M: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
> > M: Kamil Debski <k.debski@...sung.com>
> > L: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> > L: linux-media@...r.kernel.org
> > S: Maintained
> > F: drivers/media/platform/s5p-g2d/
>
> And I'm asking above all guys _really_ do review and maintaining the
> file or directories? I don't think so.
I'm not really sure what makes you think they don't. I can see all of them
involved in works on mentioned drivers.
Best regards,
Tomasz
> > and so on.
> >
> > So I think, based on this precedent, we can do the same for pinctrl.
> > Let's wait to see Thomas' view on this.
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