Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] gpiolib: add an ioctl() for monitoring line status changes

Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-01-07T16:51:40Z

wt., 7 sty 2020 o 16:58 Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> napisał(a):
>
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:19:59PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > wt., 7 sty 2020 o 15:45 Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> napisał(a):
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:44:55PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:50:28PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > > Let's try to CC the actual author (Stefani Seibold) and see if the mail
> > > > > address works and if he can look at it. Or did you already talk to
> > > > > Stefani?
> > > > >
> > > > > (git blame is always my best friend in cases like this, hehe)
> > > >
> > > > Recently I started to be smarted in such cases, i.e. I run also
> > > > `git log --author='$AUTHOR'` to see if they are still active and
> > > > what address had been used lately.
> > >
> > > ...and another possibility to `git log --grep '$AUTHOR'`.
>
> > So if some module doesn't have an official maintainer listed in
> > MAINTAINERS, we should still get a review from the original author?
>
> If you asking me, I do it in a way of playing good citizen. It's not required,
> but may give a good feedback.
>
> > KFIFO lives in lib/ - is there even an official maintainer for all
> > library helpers?
>
> lib/ is (in most cases) under akpm@ realm.
>

Once the first part of the series is in Linus' branch, I'll resend the
remaining patches with akpm in Cc.

Bart