From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thierry Reding Subject: Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver] Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:49:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20160323154859.GB9442@ulmo.nvidia.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Airlie Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Inki Dae , Heiko =?utf-8?Q?St=C3=BCbner?= , David Airlie , Mark Yao , Ajay Kumar , Javier Martinez Canillas , Doug Anderson , Jingoo Han , Yakir Yang , Andrzej Hajda , Joonyoung Shim , Seung-Woo Kim , Kyungmin Park , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Rob Herring , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , linux-samsung-soc , Pawel Moll , Ian Campbell "open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..." List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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 --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCAAGBQJW8rroAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhdf4QAKBFIkm9CJfQeE5LyQUFFCRT F+0X/DUvdDtrzTiPxhlZ70+oMJzFimZXLn2N/usTuaJRwph2zUnsoZVG5DlDqp1U ye9SOAjCSCd7znRIvcKRxsnN0nMNTCYU4sCxzt5MzXZxbREsP/RloYMNOYRS0Zjx fsElUcmgCa/PfaUiqfDpQPzS0vjbu63GwUsgrmkMEIpNwzuKSUabg3JUI7ryHUwh TQV2XAEotVF02bmzHMnH/9e+sZjlz7XOfz6izTP91mHbOcSwPr1wmLZny10PiN3E dVSe7tObP9o+UqHGdyGNasyDe7Q/UyZCViXVDEahGKqfH+6BXOpgXonnXto8HIcc 53k2ohVD/boI2RzKQXOycVMDUQlqZUS/3xyo5YPI1FNFDYgU53nHL8PcZUNF5wO4 Uf1kK5ofAjKxe7KaEvTA7qb2Stax7nuGjh+NqQmXXQzFqg5CSq+nKA7mfZV3hipi 1nLujxW0kWKkiwMxQpt2NuCQIu4F9Vb2hj65rMrPKlQLOhs7zlpa9XNl0ZtoTz/5 wFhBNG08UgMx/AKRSxUSrLws0W6zxnMDJs+MOt1JTdJbR1BfhTzTlw4Eus5aE37t DjPEaPz1hBd9G0xCWaw+s0++CBE6PknqJHvN+anMQfb1WIJWGLF0Y5APGys4/nNc 6eqLMqm8Zb4bjCvGR9Ei =HAAB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu--