Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer

Hanjun Guo
2016-07-09T03:00:44Z

On 2016/7/7 21:58, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, July 07, 2016 02:40:23 PM Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
>> [+Sudeep]
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 02:03:17PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>>>> So is this a documentation issue in which case Fu Wei can add that to
>>>>>> the file to explain its limited to ARM64. Or we could even rename the
>>>>>> file acpi_arm64_gtdt.c
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems a pity as the comment on this series were minors to block
>>>>>> things on a filename/location.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me repeat what I said above:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm mostly concerned about how (and by whom) that code is going to be
>>>>> maintained going forward.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is not about documentation, it is about responsibility.
>>>>>
>>>>> Honestly, I don't think I'm the right maintainer to apply the patch
>>>>> introducing this code and then handle bug reports regarding it and so
>>>>> on. That has to be done by somebody else.
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on ACPI for years and upstreamed the ARM64 ACPI core
>>>> support (with lots of people's help), I'm willing to maintain the ARM64
>>>> ACPI code under drivers/acpi/ if no objections.
>>>
>>> OK
>>
>> I would ask you please to add Sudeep and myself for the ARM64 specific
>> ACPI code maintainership too.
>
> OK
>
>>> Can the ARM64-specific code go under drivers/acpi/arm64/ then, for clarity?

I'm fine with it as it helps for maintain.

Thanks
Hanjun