From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757444Ab1KVSeO (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:34:14 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:40723 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757197Ab1KVSeM (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:34:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:34:08 +0000 From: Dave Martin To: Alessandro Rubini Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ARM: amba: Enable module alias autogeneration for AMBA drivers Message-ID: <20111122183408.GI2066@localhost.localdomain> References: <20111122120756.GF2066@localhost.localdomain> <1321961573-4562-1-git-send-email-dave.martin@linaro.org> <20111122115632.GA5165@mail.gnudd.com> <20111122151942.GA24821@mail.gnudd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111122151942.GA24821@mail.gnudd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > >> lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/4/125 (0/2: description of the work) > >> lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/4/126 (1/2: turn the if plethora to table lookup) > >> lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/4/127 (2/2: partial split to type-specific files). > > > > Splitting this up doesn't look like a silly idea -- I thought it was > > unfortunate to have to patch a core file just to add a bus type. > > > > I guess the question is how many new buses we get over time. > > Well, CERN will have 2 in a short time. And I'm sure the bus concept > is so good that a number of them exists as external patches. Being > forced to patch a core file is not good, with conflicts that accumulate > over time. > > I'd better be able to drop in my own file and add a kconfig-aware line > in Makefile. I think the implementation is straightforward. Who should > I send it to? I'm afraid I can't help there -- I don't often dabble in core kernel stuff. I didn't receive any response on my patches to those files, so it's possible I was CC'ing the wrong people. I did do my best dith git blame/log, get_maintainer.pl and the rest and posted to lkml a couple of times though. If I'm reading MAINTAINERS correctly, Michal Marek might be the default maintainer for stuff in scripts/ not owned by other people... the way that is described is not understood by get_maintainer.pl, it appears. Marek, are you the correct person for scripts/mod/file2alias.c and related stuff? Cheers ---Dave