From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751989AbdBBPak (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:30:40 -0500 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:40578 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751036AbdBBPaj (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:30:39 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,325,1477983600"; d="scan'208";a="816279563" From: Jani Nikula To: Thierry Reding , Eric Anholt Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, Donghwa Lee , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi.shyti@samsung.com, jh80.chung@samsung.com, cw00.choi@samsung.com, kgene@kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Hyungwon Hwang , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Hoegeun Kwon Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] drm/panel: Add support for S6E3HA2 panel driver on TM2 board In-Reply-To: <20170131213132.GC872@mithrandir.ba.sec> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo References: <1484116439-7275-1-git-send-email-hoegeun.kwon@samsung.com> <1484116439-7275-3-git-send-email-hoegeun.kwon@samsung.com> <08c5d94b-c76f-af14-c08f-478e26a34a7c@samsung.com> <588FD3C3.7080508@samsung.com> <20170131085449.GA19348@ulmo.ba.sec> <20170131143853.GU20076@art_vandelay> <20170131150226.GB4519@ulmo.ba.sec> <87r33j85ap.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net> <20170131213132.GC872@mithrandir.ba.sec> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 17:30:34 +0200 Message-ID: <871svgzk2t.fsf@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:15:10AM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: >> I would love for drm-panel to be moved under -misc. > > Like that's going to magically motivate people to spend their time > reviewing other patches. The only thing that group maintainership adds > is redundancy. Adding redundancy is not an insignificant thing. I think it can be quite liberating to not have everything and everybody depend on you. You can defer to others when you're busy, tired, sick, whatever. Things still move on. And I don't think redundancy is the only thing that group maintainership adds. You'll have maintainers that complement each other, with different skill sets and abilities and experience. They don't all look at the same things. As maintainers tend to be more senior folks, I find sharing the load of the more mundane tasks of maintainership free up their time to contribute more of their technical skills to the project, for example review. It's just my personal view on i915, but I think people take more responsibility of their own work, instead of just sending patches and waiting for stuff to happen, when they have commit access. But you have to trust the people. I didn't intend for this to become a kind of sales pitch, but I do think drm-panel would be a good fit for drm-misc. Personally I think it's your call, but I think you should think about it. (And that decision should, obviously, be made calmly, independent of any particular patch series.) BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center