Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755619AbcCWPtO (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:49:14 -0400 Received: from hqemgate16.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.65]:7955 "EHLO hqemgate16.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752849AbcCWPtL (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:49:11 -0400 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp07.nvidia.com on Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:47:33 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:49:00 +0100 From: Thierry Reding To: Dave Airlie CC: Russell King - ARM Linux , Inki Dae , Heiko =?utf-8?Q?St=C3=BCbner?= , David Airlie , Mark Yao , "Ajay Kumar" , Javier Martinez Canillas , Doug Anderson , Jingoo Han , Yakir Yang , Andrzej Hajda , Joonyoung Shim , "Seung-Woo Kim" , Kyungmin Park , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Rob Herring , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , linux-samsung-soc , Pawel Moll , "Ian Campbell" , "open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..." , Emil Velikov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Daniel Kurtz , "Kishon Vijay Abraham I" , Kukjin Kim , Sean Paul , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Kumar Gala , "Ajay kumar" , Rob Herring , Andy Yan , Gustavo Padovan , Caesar Wang , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver] Message-ID: <20160323154859.GB9442@ulmo.nvidia.com> References: <1455534485-1154-1-git-send-email-ykk@rock-chips.com> <1919945.Y1tg0YzXlm@diego> <56F1CAEB.3080701@samsung.com> <8949624.HmxDpZAlt2@diego> <56F1D0AD.8030905@samsung.com> <20160322233906.GP19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <56F1DB27.4040001@samsung.com> <20160323000835.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-NVConfidentiality: public User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Originating-IP: [10.2.69.119] X-ClientProxiedBy: UKMAIL101.nvidia.com (10.26.138.13) To UKMAIL101.nvidia.com (10.26.138.13) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2270 Lines: 56 --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:41:58AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > >> So although it's small framework or just subdirectory, we would need > >> someone who can manage the framework to avoid further confusion if > >> necessary. > > > > So maybe it just doesn't need a maintainer, and maybe those the owner > > of the bridge driver should be responsible for choosing the tree which > > it's merged through along with updates. That's how dw-hdmi has been > > managed on the whole. > > > > It also means that the bridge driver maintainer is able to test changes > > to the bridge driver, rather than having some over-arching bridge > > subdirectory maintainer who doesn't have a clue whether the changes > > work on the hardware. > > > > IMHO, having bridge driver authors/maintainers look after their own > > code has many advantages. >=20 > The author just send me a pull request with acks from a git tree > that hopefully both people agreed and tested from. No need to > send this via another maintainer layer. I have in the past "maintained" bridge drivers as part of the panel tree, but I have no objections at all for this to go in via one of the trees where it is used and can actually be tested. Thierry --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCAAGBQJW8rroAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhdf4QAKBFIkm9CJfQeE5LyQUFFCRT F+0X/DUvdDtrzTiPxhlZ70+oMJzFimZXLn2N/usTuaJRwph2zUnsoZVG5DlDqp1U ye9SOAjCSCd7znRIvcKRxsnN0nMNTCYU4sCxzt5MzXZxbREsP/RloYMNOYRS0Zjx fsElUcmgCa/PfaUiqfDpQPzS0vjbu63GwUsgrmkMEIpNwzuKSUabg3JUI7ryHUwh TQV2XAEotVF02bmzHMnH/9e+sZjlz7XOfz6izTP91mHbOcSwPr1wmLZny10PiN3E dVSe7tObP9o+UqHGdyGNasyDe7Q/UyZCViXVDEahGKqfH+6BXOpgXonnXto8HIcc 53k2ohVD/boI2RzKQXOycVMDUQlqZUS/3xyo5YPI1FNFDYgU53nHL8PcZUNF5wO4 Uf1kK5ofAjKxe7KaEvTA7qb2Stax7nuGjh+NqQmXXQzFqg5CSq+nKA7mfZV3hipi 1nLujxW0kWKkiwMxQpt2NuCQIu4F9Vb2hj65rMrPKlQLOhs7zlpa9XNl0ZtoTz/5 wFhBNG08UgMx/AKRSxUSrLws0W6zxnMDJs+MOt1JTdJbR1BfhTzTlw4Eus5aE37t DjPEaPz1hBd9G0xCWaw+s0++CBE6PknqJHvN+anMQfb1WIJWGLF0Y5APGys4/nNc 6eqLMqm8Zb4bjCvGR9Ei =HAAB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu--