From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756116AbZHYTtH (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:49:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756024AbZHYTtG (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:49:06 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com ([209.85.219.206]:58255 "EHLO mail-ew0-f206.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755972AbZHYTtF (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:49:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4A94402A.1090003@billgatliff.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:48:58 -0500 From: Bill Gatliff User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kevin Hilman , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Tony Lindgren , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Nicolas Pitre , Russell King Subject: Re: ARM subarch submissions for next merge window References: <877hwtnxdx.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Kevin Hilman wrote: > >> After some discussions on linux-arm-kernel during the last merge >> window, a suggestion from Alan Cox[1], and a willingness to try it >> from Russell[2], some ARM subarch maintainers would like to push our >> platform-specific code directly to you for the next merge window. >> How do you define "subarch maintainer"? If I have a new platform port, but am heretofore unknown to linux-arm-kernel, do I still send a pull request to Linus directly? Or are the subarch maintainers the guys like Russell, Nico, Tony, etc. and _they_ are the ones that get to send pull requests directly to the Benevolent Dictator for Life? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com