Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: ARM: EXYNOS: Add Krzysztof Kozlowski asco-maintainer

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>]

Tobias Jakobi <liquid.acid@gmx.net> writes:

> Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Hello Kukjin,
>> 
>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> On 05/14/15 21:15, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> Add Krzysztof Kozlowski as a co-maintainer of Samsung Exynos ARM
>>>> architecture to review the patches. Patches will go as usual - picked up
>>>> by Kukjin Kim.
>>>>
>>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don't agree with this patch because you can review any exynos
>>> patches without maintainer title. And I can focus on the maintainer'r
>>> role more than now because of change of role ;-) Of course your review
>>> would be helpful to me.
>>>
>> 
>> Sorry but I disagree. Krzysztof has been very active reviewing Exynos
>> patches and even picking/queuing important fixes while it seems you
>> were too busy and couldn't pay close attention.
> I would even go further than that. We're in this situation because the
> current maintainer didn't do his job properly.
>
> I want to point out what gregkh once said about this matter:
> https://youtu.be/iiED1K98lnw?t=1745
>
>
>
>> It's really great that due a role change you will have more time to
>> focus on the maintainership but I don't see why having more
>> maintainers could be something negative. As long as you work in a
>> coordinate manner, the more maintainers we have the better IMHO. It
>> may be that in the future you change your role at your company again
>> and then it will be good to have something else to take care of the
>> posted patches ;-)
> I very much agree with Javier here. Krzysztof promptly responds to
> patches and usually provides detailed feedback when things need changes.
> It would be stupid not to accept him as an additional maintainer.

I'll take this as an Acked-by then.

FWIW, I agree with Tobias and Javier, extra help for exynos has been
sorely needed for a long time, and I am very happy to see someone
stepping up to help.  Thank you Krzysztof!  (and I apologize in advance
for the many times I'm likely to misspell your name ;)

I'll be applying this to the arm-soc tree,

Thanks,

Kevin