From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Vorontsov Subject: Re: Power sequences upstreaming (Was: Re: [PATCH] tegra: ventana: display and backlight DT entries) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:03:10 -0800 Message-ID: <20121115060310.GA26076@lizard> References: <1352802204-1740-1-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com> <1393946.fMW2YXfOao@percival> <50A3C24C.6090004@wwwdotorg.org> <193309413.vmBPZntXg4@percival> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <193309413.vmBPZntXg4@percival> Sender: linux-tegra-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Alex Courbot Cc: Stephen Warren , Thierry Reding , "linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Mark Zhang , David Woodhouse List-Id: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 02:45:44PM +0900, Alex Courbot wrote: > 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. Sure, I can easily pull your tree (assuming you guys agree on the subsystem design, i.e. if the code has no strong NAKs). Thanks, Anton.