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Message-ID: <52836DC8.8080702@ti.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:17:12 -0400
From:	Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@...com>
To:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
CC:	Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@...com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Pawel Moll <Pawel.Moll@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	"rob.herring@...xeda.com" <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	"rui.zhang@...el.com" <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	"wni@...dia.com" <wni@...dia.com>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	"durgadoss.r@...el.com" <durgadoss.r@...el.com>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"lm-sensors@...sensors.org" <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 20/20] MAINTAINERS: add maintainer entry for thermal
 bindings

On 13-11-2013 05:42, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 08:14:41PM +0000, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
>> On 12-11-2013 15:59, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Eduardo Valentin
>>> <eduardo.valentin@...com> wrote:
>>>> After discussion and agreement of thermal device tree bindings,
>>>> it is desirable to properly maintain thermal bindings for
>>>> existing and upcoming devices.
>>>>
>>>> As original author of thermal device tree bindings, I am
>>>> volunteering to maintain them.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
>>>> Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
>>>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
>>>> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
>>>> Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@...com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> index 3438384..94bfc46 100644
>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> @@ -6178,6 +6178,7 @@ M:        Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
>>>>  M:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
>>>>  M:     Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
>>>>  M:     Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>
>>>> +M:     Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@...com>
>>>>  L:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org
>>>>  S:     Maintained
>>>>  F:     Documentation/devicetree/
>>>
>>> The number of device-tree maintainers is getting to be somewhat silly.
>>> You don't have to be a maintainer to be a reviewer, and the number is
>>> getting large enough that it might get hard for one maintainer to know
>>> what another is doing.
>>>
>>> So, soft nack, but it's really up to the DT guys.
>>
>> Hello Olof,
>>
>> No issues on my side. As I stated in the patch description, I am
>> volunteering. The motivation comes from the fact that it's been hard to
>> get DT maintainers attention, so I am assuming they are not having
>> enough bandwidth to pay attention to an extra class of bindings.
>>
>> I agree with you, this is up to the DT folks.
> 
> When we discussed this in #devicetree, I was under the impression you
> meant adding a line like:
> 
> F:      Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/
> 
> To your MAINTAINERS entry, rather than adding yourself to the general
> devicetree bindings MAINTAINERS entry. Sorry for the confusion regarding
> this.
> 
> Given we have enough difficulty organising ourselves at present, I agree
> with Olof that it doesn't make much sense to throw more people into the
> general devicetree bindings maintainer pile.
> 
> However, we would certainly appreciate any review you'd be willing to
> provide.

No issues then folks. :-)

> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> 


-- 
You have got to be excited about what you are doing. (L. Lamport)

Eduardo Valentin


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