Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:02:08 +0200
From: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
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To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>, Srikanth Thokala <sthokal@xilinx.com>
CC: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] pcie: Add Xilinx PCIe Host Bridge IP driver
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On 07/22/2014 06:08 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Srikanth Thokala <sthokal@xilinx.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I see I forgot to ask for a MAINTAINERS entry for this driver.  Can
>>> you add one?
>>
>> There was a discussion on this earlier and Michal mentioned it is not
>> required as it is
>> handled by our Xilinx record.
>>
>> Here is the reply from Michal to the MAINTAINERS update comment,
>>
>> < Reply from Michal >
>>
>>> Please also include a MAINTAINERS update for drivers/pci/host/pci-xilinx.c.
>>
>> This should be handle by our record that's why MAINTAINERS update is
>> not necessary.
>> (N: xilinx below)
> 
> That's technically true in the sense that get_maintainer.pl will do
> the right thing, but I often review patches in email (without
> extracting them), so it's more convenient to just look in MAINTAINERS
> to see if they have the right acks.  But I guess I can deal with it
> either way.

There is also another reason for using just this fragment.
Because developers and their responsibilities are changing so often
and I just know who is responsible for it at that time.

Thanks,
Michal


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