linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] drm/sti: hdmi: drop driver owner assignment

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Message-ID: <d452970f-804b-4b96-bbd4-a3de73b5ecce@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:04:10 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>, neil.armstrong@...aro.org
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] drm/sti: hdmi: drop driver owner assignment

On 05/07/2024 12:37, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>>>> Acked-by: Alain Volmat <alain.volmat@...s.st.com>
>>>>
>>>> What does this ack mean? You are the maintainer, so what is supposed to
>>>> happen now? If maintainer does not take patches, then the DRM STI looks
>>>> orphaned.
>>>
>>> +Cc Neil, Dmitry,
>>>
>>> I pinged and pinged and wanted some sort of clarification here but one
>>> month passed and nothing was clarified.
>>>
>>> I could be understanding the DRM process wrong, but if no one picks up
>>> trivial cleanups for 1.5 months, then to me subsystem is orphaned. I
>>> will send respective MAINTAINERS update.
>>
>> Let's do that, if Alain doesn't take his own patches that were reviewed
>> then it should either be orphaned  or moved to drm-misc.
> 
> But it already a part of drm-misc as far as I can see:

In such case who is going to pick up such patches?

Best regards,
Krzysztof