From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763801AbYEGHKe (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 03:10:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757534AbYEGHKW (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 03:10:22 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56827 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753511AbYEGHKU (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 03:10:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 00:08:53 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jean Delvare Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Alessandro Zummo , Ralf Baechle , Thomas Gleixner , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, i2c@lm-sensors.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] RTC: SWARM I2C board initialization Message-Id: <20080507000853.17f1316b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080507085953.2c08b854@hyperion.delvare> References: <20080507085953.2c08b854@hyperion.delvare> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:59:53 +0200 Jean Delvare wrote: > I'm not sure how you intend to push these changes upstream. I would > take a patch only touching drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sibyte.c in my i2c > tree, however a patch also touching arch code, must be handled be the > maintainer for that architecture or platform. Not "must". The arch maintainer could ask you to merge it or you could ask the arch maintainer to merge it. It's some little one-line change like this one appeared to be, it's fair to assume the arch maintainer won't care much about it. View it as an i2c patch?