From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>,
"linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ajay Thomas <ajay.thomas.david.rajamanickam@intel.com>,
Yegnesh S Iyer <yegnesh.s.iyer@intel.com>,
Bin Gao <bin.gao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] gpio: add Intel WhiskeyCove PMIC GPIO driver
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:46:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160913144617.GL28311@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75Vd6X_f7sO0MqjTBgbpWHSNKxiL6iQytmYqTnb=3W8Lz-w@mail.gmail.com>
[Re: [PATCH v7] gpio: add Intel WhiskeyCove PMIC GPIO driver] On 13/09/2016 (Tue 17:35) Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Paul Gortmaker
> <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
> >> > This looks like an invalid address, and ....
> >>
> >> >> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Ajay Thomas <ajay.thomas.david.rajamanickam@intel.com>");
> >> >
> >> > ...the same here. In fact it sure looks like two names. Anyway I just got a
> >> > bounce when I tried to use it...
> >>
> >> It might be that person is no longer working for Intel, though I think
> >> It would be better log message for that.
> >
> > That might make sense if the driver was old, but it hasn't even hit
> > mainline yet -- it is only in linux-next, so it cant be more than a few
> > weeks old.
>
> It's already quite off topic, so, I would just say that it is still
> valid point. Starting from some version of the series (which takes
> couple of months?) Bin Gao did improvements.
Not sure why you would call it off topic -- a new driver appearing in
mainline should have a valid author entry, and if it is an accidental
merge of two names into one then Bin Gao is the person who can ack that
and subsequently fix it.
P.
--
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-13 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-25 21:59 [PATCH v7] gpio: add Intel WhiskeyCove PMIC GPIO driver Bin Gao
2016-08-11 11:30 ` Linus Walleij
2016-09-12 22:37 ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-09-13 7:02 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-09-13 13:37 ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-09-13 14:35 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-09-13 14:46 ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2016-09-13 15:49 ` Gao, Bin
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