Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934387AbbENPwO (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 11:52:14 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:36698 "EHLO mail-pa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934323AbbENPwL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 11:52:11 -0400 From: Kevin Hilman To: Tobias Jakobi Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas , Kukjin Kim , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Linux Kernel , "linux-samsung-soc\@vger.kernel.org" , Russell King , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , "linux-arm-kernel\@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: ARM: EXYNOS: Add Krzysztof Kozlowski asco-maintainer References: <1431605720-828-1-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com> <55549C56.6050509@kernel.org> <5554ABF4.80002@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 08:52:07 -0700 In-Reply-To: <5554ABF4.80002@gmx.net> (Tobias Jakobi's message of "Thu, 14 May 2015 16:06:44 +0200") Message-ID: <7hfv6z17iw.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Length: 2360 Lines: 58 Tobias Jakobi writes: > Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> Hello Kukjin, >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Kukjin Kim 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 -- 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/