[PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

[PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

[Thierry Reding]

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 <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>
Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
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.

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 <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
-- 
1.7.12

Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> 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 <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
> Cc: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

I love active maintainers:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij

Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

[Sachin Kamat]

On 20 September 2012 16:20, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> 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 <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
> Cc: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>


> ---
> 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.
>
> 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 <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
> --
> 1.7.12
>



-- 
With warm regards,
Sachin

RE: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

[Arun MURTHY]

> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
> Cc: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 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.

Acked-by: Arun Murthy<arun.murthy@stericsson.com>

I hope now the review process will be fast instead of going through Andrew's
tree.
All the Best!
Now I think I can re-start my pwm core driver thread, since I have a maintainer
for this :-)

Thanks and Regards,
Arun R Murthy
------------------

Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

[Alex Courbot]

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 <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
> Cc: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 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 <acourbot@nvidia.com>

> 
> 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 <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>