Re: [PATCH v8] platform: x86: Add ChromeOS ACPI device driver

[Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>]

Hi,

On 4/27/22 7:22 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 4/22/22 16:47, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> Can I add you as a maintainer of drivers/platform/x86/chromeos_acpi.c?
>> You already maintain some other drivers in this directory.
> If you want to rely on me as default/fallback maintainer
> for the new chromeos_acpi driver, then simply don't add
> a MAINTAINERS entry for this driver.
> 
> I'm the default maintainer for everything under
> drivers/platform/x86/ .
> 
> With that said:
> 
> 
>> On 4/18/22 10:57 PM, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>>> Hi Benson,
>>>
>>> We are very near to getting this patch in. I can see that you are
>>> maintaining Chrome Platform support. This driver is in
>>> drivers/platform/x86/chromeos_acpi.c. Can you maintain this driver as
>>> well? I'll add you to the maintainers.
> now that you mention it, moving this to drivers/platform/chrome/
> actually seems like the most sensible thing to do given that
> this is chrome specific platform code. So please move it
> there for the next version.
> 
This driver was added in platform/x86 as it is only x86 specific.
Definitely it makes more sense to move it to platform/chrome. I'll move it.

> Talking about the next version, please address all review
> remarks from Barnabás for the next version.
> 
After Greg's comment to define attributes at compile time, the driver
will change completely and way simpler.

> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 

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Muhammad Usama Anjum