linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: return arch/sh to maintained state, with new maintainers

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVbGLK_P_6ftEDnmQWwJO+vZYWJro_OtoEB_NzhhFZTeg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:48:44 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc:	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
	Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"D. Jeff Dionne" <jeff@...inux.org>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: return arch/sh to maintained state, with
 new maintainers

Hi Rich,

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:31:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 1:52 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:40:46AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 06:53:07PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 11:39:59PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
>> >> > > From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Add Yoshinori Sato and Rich Felker as maintainers for arch/sh
>> >> > > (SUPERH).

>> > While patch 2/2 still seems to need discussion and resolution, I don't
>> > think this part (1/2, adding us as maintainers) is controversial. Can
>> > it be committed now? Geert? Andrew?
>>
>> I think it should go in either through Andrew, or through yourself, depending
>> on whether you already have other stuff ready for this merge window, and have
>> a git repo to pull from.
>>
>> Do you have a git repository to ask Linus to pull from, and to provide a branch
>> for linux-next integration testing?
>
> Not quite yet. If it can be done in this merge window, I think it
> makes sense for Andrew to do it to make it official that arch/sh isn't
> abandoned, and Sato-san and I can have the repo setup well ahead of
> the next window. How does that sound?

That sounds fine to me.

> I'd love it if we could get some of the actual code changes in for
> this merge window too but I'm not clear whether there's still time.

I don't think there's a reason to hurry.
People can start using your tree as soon as it becomes public.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds