Power sequences upstreaming (Was: Re: [PATCH] tegra: ventana: display and backlight DT entries)

[Alex Courbot <acourbot-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Thursday 15 November 2012 00:09:48 Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 11/13/2012 10:36 PM, Alex Courbot wrote:
> > - If I am to take maintainership of the feature, I guess I will have to
> > get
> > the patches sufficiently Ack'ed by enough people, and also have someone
> > else pull from my tree (Linus? Or maybe some other power maintainer?). I
> > am not familiar with the exact procedure here - moreover, my GPG key only
> > has one signature from a trusted kernel dev, I am not sure if this is
> > enough.
> It's probably best to go ask whoever maintains the rest of the code in
> the directory above where you placed it. See if they'll take your pull
> request. If not, you can try sending directly to Linus, CCing enough
> other known people to get acks (I think you already collected a few right?)

Anton, David, would you agree to pull power sequences support from my tree 
(considering I will maintain it)? It will reside in drivers/power/power_seq 
and as it is not a major feature it might not be worth dealing with Linus 
directly.

The feature has gone through 5 review cycles, received some Acks and is being 
used by the pwm-backlight driver and very probably others in the future (I am 
particularly thinking about the panel framework which is likely to need them). 
We would like to push Tegra display support in 3.8, and this feature will be 
needed to support our reference boards. Please let me know if you would be the 
right intermediate or if I should ask someone else.

Thanks,
Alex.