From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?=) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:15:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] make mc13783 code generic In-Reply-To: <20101130145517.GF32368@sirena.org.uk> References: <1291110118.3235.27.camel@realization> <20101130143247.GI20449@pengutronix.de> <20101130145517.GF32368@sirena.org.uk> Message-ID: <20101130151540.GN20449@pengutronix.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hello Mark, On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:55:17PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:32:47PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:41:58AM +0100, Alberto Panizzo wrote: > > > > PS: ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl said to cc all these guys: > > > > Please, use always this script to decide who have to be cc'ed by default > > > sending patches. > > > No, please don't. Better use your common sense. get_maintainer.pl is a > > hint at best. E.g. Axel Lin only shows up in the list, because he > > touched several other regulator drivers and drivers/regulator/Makefile. > > I doubt that this is enough to imply interest. > > Yeah, Axel is doing a lot of cleanups but he's not got an active > interest in most of the code he's touching. If you use the --nogit > option (which is the default with current -next) get_maintainer.pl is a > bit safer but you then need to think about people who might be actively > interested in the driver but not listed in MAINTAINERS, and you still > need to make sure that everyone you're seeing is interested (especially > with multi-level maintianance). I tried --nogit some time ago, but it still used git. After looking again I probably should have passed --nogit-fallback, too. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K?nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |