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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-10T01:22:12Z

On Saturday, July 09, 2016 11:44:47 AM Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 2016/7/8 21:22, 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.
>
> Fine to me.
>
> >
> > Having a maintainer per file would be farcical, I really do not
>
> Agree, but having three of us in maintainer entries in MAINTAINERS
> file will help the patches be reviewed correctly with more eyes.
>
> > expect that amount of traffic for drivers/acpi/arm64 therefore I
> > really doubt there is any risk of me slowing things down.
> >
> > Does this sound reasonable ? Comments/complaints welcome, please
> > manifest yourselves.
>
> Fair enough. What I'm concern most is land ACPI on ARM64 soundly,
> let's do that :)
>
> OK, let's back to this patch set, Fuwei already prepared a new version
> of patches [1] (moving acpi_gtdt.c to drivers/acpi/arm64/ and add a
> maintainer entries patch), shall we review and comment on this patch
> set for now, or just let Fuwei send out the new version?

Frankly, I don't see a point in discussing the old version only if a new
one is available already. Post it, please.

Thanks,
Rafael