Re: [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] Support for the TS-5500 board

Vivien Didelot
2011-08-10T14:06:40Z

Hi,

Le Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:18:28 +0200,
Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
> wrote:
> > I think platform-driver-x86 may not be the best mailing list for
> > your patches.
> >
> > Please try to use scripts/get_maintainer.pl and it can tell you who
> > you shall ask for reviewing.
>
> Like Ike said, this is the mainling list for drivers/platform/x86, not
> arch/x86, and running get_maintainer.pl on your patchs will give you
> the rights people to CC.

Thanks for this information, it can be useful indeed.

>
> And btw, I'm not sure we really want to put all these drivers in
> arch/x86/platform/ts5500/ a re-create the arm driver mess.
> drivers/leds/, drivers/gpio/ and drivers/mtd/ are probably a best
> choice.

In fact, this set of patches is a rewrite of the first RFC set, where
we discussed that arch/x86/platform/ could be a good place, as the
TS-5500 is a specific platform with its platform devices (the
corresponding thread is here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/3/60).

Regards,
Vivien.