From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755840Ab2I1CQL (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:16:11 -0400 Received: from hqemgate04.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.35]:1421 "EHLO hqemgate04.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754952Ab2I1CQH (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:16:07 -0400 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp08.nvidia.com on Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:15:59 -0700 From: Alex Courbot To: Thierry Reding CC: Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Arun Murthy , Matthew Garrett , Robert Morell , Dilan Lee , Axel Lin , Mark Brown , Sachin Kamat Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:18:06 +0900 Message-ID: <1608992.fV4uusRRUm@percival> Organization: NVIDIA User-Agent: KMail/4.9.1 (Linux/3.5.3-1-ARCH; KDE/4.9.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1348138235-3625-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> References: <1348138235-3625-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 20 September 2012 18:50:35 Thierry Reding wrote: > Since the pwm-backlight driver is lacking a proper maintainer and is the > heaviest user of the PWM framework I'm taking over maintenance. > > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding > Cc: Arun Murthy > Cc: Matthew Garrett > Cc: Robert Morell > Cc: Dilan Lee > Cc: Axel Lin > Cc: Mark Brown > Cc: Alexandre Courbot > Cc: Sachin Kamat > Cc: Andrew Morton > --- > Andrew: As previously discussed this patch makes me the new maintainer > for the pwm-backlight driver. I contacted Richard Purdie and requested > his Acked-by for this because he's the backlight subsystem maintainer. > Unfortunately he hasn't answered yet. Looking at the commit log, every > commit in the last 2+ years has gone through your tree, which seems to > be reason enough for me to take over this driver but I still wanted to > get an Acked-by at least from you so that this doesn't look like > hijacking. I've also Cc'ed a couple of people that have done work on > the driver in the past to give them a chance to object or send their > Acked-by. Probably too late, but: Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot > > Obviously I will take this patch through my tree so this is not a > request to include it in your tree. > > MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 61ad79e..a6f023e 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -5543,6 +5543,8 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/ > F: include/linux/pwm.h > F: include/linux/of_pwm.h > F: drivers/pwm/ > +F: drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c > +F: include/linux/pwm_backlight.h > > PXA2xx/PXA3xx SUPPORT > M: Eric Miao