Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759508Ab3FMXDI (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:03:08 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f51.google.com ([74.125.83.51]:34718 "EHLO mail-ee0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756785Ab3FMXDG (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:03:06 -0400 From: Tomasz Figa To: Kukjin Kim Cc: "'Doug Anderson'" , "'Stephen Rothwell'" , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, "'Linus Walleij'" , "'Olof Johansson'" , "'Mauro Carvalho Chehab'" , "'Andrew Morton'" , "'Cesar Eduardo Barros'" , "'David S. Miller'" , "'Hans Verkuil'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thomas.abraham@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Samsung pinctrl entries Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:03:03 +0200 Message-ID: <2614957.8jBPZazWeB@flatron> User-Agent: KMail/4.10.4 (Linux/3.9.5-gentoo; KDE/4.10.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <15dd01ce6887$f3d6d720$db848560$%kim@samsung.com> References: <1371143144-31764-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> <9948950.GZ51yJYkxQ@flatron> <15dd01ce6887$f3d6d720$db848560$%kim@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1724 Lines: 44 On Friday 14 of June 2013 07:47:15 Kukjin Kim wrote: > Tomasz Figa wrote: > > On Thursday 13 of June 2013 10:05:44 Doug Anderson wrote: > > > It's convenient if get_maintainer suggests sending samsung/exynos > > > pinctrl changes to linux-samsung-soc and to Kukjin. Add an entry > > > for > > > that. > > > > Well, if we are already at it, we could list the actual maintainers of > > the driver. > > > > The original maintainer was Thomas Abraham > > Should be original author?! I think, original maintainer was/is Linus > Walleij. Linus is the maintainer of the pin control subsystem. In addition drivers can have their own maintainers, but of course they are lower in the hierarchy than subsystem maintainers. > Let's see, probably original author should have some knowledge for it > but the meaning of the maintainer is different. Of course, would be > helpful if original author could review and maintain... Maintainer is the person who takes care of the code, including testing, fixes, review of patches, but also development as well to keep the driver up to date with core code, improve things, add support for new hardware, etc. Originally Thomas Abraham was the person doing it for this driver. At least I remember, he was the person who reviewed and acked my patches when I started my work on improving this driver. Later on I took over most of those tasks and I've been doing so ever since that time. Best regards, Tomasz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/