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

Sudeep Holla
2016-07-08T13:50:42Z

On 08/07/16 14:22, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 03:58:04PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Anyway let's avoid these petty arguments, I agree there must be some
>>> sort of ARM64 ACPI maintainership for the reasons you mentioned above.
>>
>> To avoid confusion on who's going to push stuff to Linus, I can do
>> that, but it must be clear whose ACKs are needed for that to happen.
>> That may be one person or all of you, whatever you decide.
>
> I think the reasoning is the same, to avoid confusion and avoid stepping
> on each other toes it is best to have a single gatekeeper (still
> multiple maintainer entries to keep patches reviewed correctly), if no
> one complains I will do that and a) provide ACKs (I will definitely
> require and request Hanjun and Sudeep ones too appropriately on a per
> patch basis) and b) send you pull requests.
>
> Having a maintainer per file would be farcical, I really do not
> expect that amount of traffic for drivers/acpi/arm64 therefore

I agree.

> I really doubt there is any risk of me slowing things down.
>
> Does this sound reasonable ? Comments/complaints welcome, please
> manifest yourselves.
>

Yes sounds good to me.

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Regards,
Sudeep