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

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Message-ID: <72069f51-d416-4c55-8c9a-56f2ed1a6ef0@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:36:37 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 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, Alain Volmat <alain.volmat@...s.st.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] drm/sti: hdmi: drop driver owner assignment

On 05/07/2024 13:14, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> +Alain
> 
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 03:18:55PM GMT, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 27/05/2024 16:47, Alain Volmat wrote:
>>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>>
>>> thanks for your patch, sorry for the delay.
>>>


...

>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> The expectation would have been that Alain would have applied these
> patches. That being said, your reply here dropped him from the
> recipients list, so it's not surprising you didn't get any answer.


Uh, indeed. I don't know how this happened. I was replying to him, which
is visible in "On 27/05 .... Alain Vormat wrote" header, but... weird.

Alain,
I apologize, it seems I am responsible for this mishap here.

Best regards,
Krzysztof