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Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 2015 23:11:49 +0200
From:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add me on list of Dell laptop drivers

On Thursday 02 April 2015 07:10:27 Darren Hart wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 03:38:50PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> 
> Please include why. No empty commit messages please.
> 
> For example, you've written nearly a third of the dell-wmi.c
> driver, and all the dell-smo8800.c driver.
> 

Ok. If you need description include this:

===
MAINTAINERS: Add me on list of Dell laptop drivers

I have written more parts of dell laptop drivers dell-laptop.c, 
dell-wmi.c and dell-smo8800.c
===

> Dell Laptop is still pending the keyboard backlight patches
> though I believe (have I missed them?), so you don't
> currently have code ownership there. I agree you should be on
> the MAINTAINERS list, but it would be good to get your
> keyboard backlight changes in first.
> 

ok.

> Gosh... sure seems like we should have merged that already...
> am I missing something? The last thing I see in master,
> testing, and next is the revert from Jan 21....
> 

backlight support was merged for 3.19, but has small problem with 
ALS settings. And then you decided to revert it for 3.19. After 
that problem was fixed and last (2015-03-06) you wrote that you 
queued patch again for 4.1 release.

> Also, Matthew, you're the listed maintainer for these, do you
> agree to adding Pali?
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  MAINTAINERS |    7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 88c09ca..72a08ef 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -3058,10 +3058,16 @@ F:	drivers/net/fddi/defxx.*
> > 
> >  DELL LAPTOP DRIVER
> >  M:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
> > 
> > +M:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > 
> >  L:	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
> >  S:	Maintained
> >  F:	drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> > 
> > +DELL LAPTOP FREEFALL DRIVER
> > +M:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > +S:	Maintained
> > +F:	drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c
> > +
> > 
> >  DELL LAPTOP SMM DRIVER
> >  M:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> >  S:	Maintained
> > 
> > @@ -3076,6 +3082,7 @@ F:	drivers/firmware/dcdbas.*
> > 
> >  DELL WMI EXTRAS DRIVER
> >  M:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
> > 
> > +M:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > 
> >  S:	Maintained
> >  F:	drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com

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