[V2 PATCH] cpuidle: add maintainer entry

[rjw@sisk.pl (Rafael J. Wysocki)]

On Friday, April 26, 2013 01:05:44 PM Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Currently the cpuidle drivers are spread across the different archs.
> 
> The patch submission for cpuidle are following different path: the cpuidle core
> code goes to linux-pm, the ARM drivers goes to arm-soc or the SoC specific
> tree, sh goes through sh arch tree, pseries goes through PowerPC and
> finally intel goes through Len's tree while acpi_idle goes under linux-pm.
> 
> That makes difficult to consolidate the code and to propagate modifications
> from the cpuidle core to the different drivers.
> 
> Hopefully, a movement has initiated to put the cpuidle drivers into the
> drivers/cpuidle directory like cpuidle-calxeda.c and cpuidle-kirkwood.c
> 
> Add an explicit maintainer entry in the MAINTAINER to clarify the situation
> and prevent new cpuidle drivers to goes to an arch directory.
> 
> The upstreaming process is unchanged: Rafael takes the patches to merge them
> into its tree but with the acked-by from the driver's maintainer. So the header
> must contains the name of the maintainer.
> 
> This organization will be the same than cpufreq.

Applied (with modified changelog).

One consequence of this is that I'll be asking you to ACK changes in
ARM cpuidle drivers. :-)

Thanks,
Rafael


> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>  #for kirkwood
> Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> #for kirkwood
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                        |    9 +++++++++
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c  |    4 +++-
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c |    5 +++--
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 61677c3..45ee6dc 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2217,6 +2217,15 @@ F:	drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.h
>  F:	drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c
>  F:	drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little_dt.c
>  
> +CPUIDLE DRIVERS
> +M:	Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> +M:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> +L:	linux-pm at vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +T:	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git
> +F:	drivers/cpuidle/*
> +F:	include/linux/cpuidle.h
> +
>  CPUID/MSR DRIVER
>  M:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
>  S:	Maintained
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c
> index e344b56..2233791 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  /*
>   * Copyright 2012 Calxeda, Inc.
>   *
> - * Based on arch/arm/plat-mxc/cpuidle.c:
> + * Based on arch/arm/plat-mxc/cpuidle.c: #v3.7
>   * Copyright 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
>   * Copyright 2012 Linaro Ltd.
>   *
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
>   *
>   * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
>   * this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> + *
> + * Maintainer: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>   */
>  
>  #include <linux/cpuidle.h>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c
> index 53290e1..521b0a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
>  /*
> - * arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/cpuidle.c
> - *
>   * CPU idle Marvell Kirkwood SoCs
>   *
>   * This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> @@ -11,6 +9,9 @@
>   * to implement two idle states -
>   * #1 wait-for-interrupt
>   * #2 wait-for-interrupt and DDR self refresh
> + *
> + * Maintainer: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
> + * Maintainer: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
>   */
>  
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> 
-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.