From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: treding@nvidia.com (Thierry Reding) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:49:00 +0100 Subject: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver] In-Reply-To: References: <1455534485-1154-1-git-send-email-ykk@rock-chips.com> <1919945.Y1tg0YzXlm@diego> <56F1CAEB.3080701@samsung.com> <8949624.HmxDpZAlt2@diego> <56F1D0AD.8030905@samsung.com> <20160322233906.GP19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <56F1DB27.4040001@samsung.com> <20160323000835.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20160323154859.GB9442@ulmo.nvidia.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:41:58AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > >> So although it's small framework or just subdirectory, we would need > >> someone who can manage the framework to avoid further confusion if > >> necessary. > > > > So maybe it just doesn't need a maintainer, and maybe those the owner > > of the bridge driver should be responsible for choosing the tree which > > it's merged through along with updates. That's how dw-hdmi has been > > managed on the whole. > > > > It also means that the bridge driver maintainer is able to test changes > > to the bridge driver, rather than having some over-arching bridge > > subdirectory maintainer who doesn't have a clue whether the changes > > work on the hardware. > > > > IMHO, having bridge driver authors/maintainers look after their own > > code has many advantages. > > The author just send me a pull request with acks from a git tree > that hopefully both people agreed and tested from. No need to > send this via another maintainer layer. I have in the past "maintained" bridge drivers as part of the panel tree, but I have no objections at all for this to go in via one of the trees where it is used and can actually be tested. Thierry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: