From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752312AbbCYW6Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:58:16 -0400 Received: from zabrina.hetzner-de.towertech.it ([178.63.16.19]:45012 "EHLO zabrina.hetzner-de.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708AbbCYW6N (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:58:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:58:09 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Alexandre Belloni as an RTC maintainer Message-ID: <20150325235809.22f1c441@linux.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <1427320651-21356-1-git-send-email-alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> References: <1427320651-21356-1-git-send-email-alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Organization: Tower Technologies 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, 25 Mar 2015 22:57:31 +0100 Alexandre Belloni wrote: > I'd like to propose myself as the RTC susbsystem co-maintainer, to mainly help > Alessandro reviewing incoming patches and maintain a subsystem tree to avoid > having the RTC patches going through trees when they have no particular > dependencies. Thanks :) A few things I consider important: - a driver for a new hardware usually causes no harm to the subsystem - a patch for an existing driver should be approved by the original author, if possible. there are a few chips out there that are quite rare or have multiple wiring configuration and break very easily. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo - CEO, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it