Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756724AbcJSGlm (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2016 02:41:42 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:12106 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbcJSGle (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2016 02:41:34 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,513,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="1046792680" Message-ID: <1476859284.18750.115.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the SPI NOR subsystem From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com To: Brian Norris , Richard Weinberger Cc: Cyrille Pitchen , Marek Vasut , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , nicolas.ferre@atmel.com, Boris Brezillon , LKML , David Woodhouse Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:41:24 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20161018184651.GA71760@google.com> References: <0a3eaa21fb0f38743308c9cc9fc5d2373f4877de.1476802288.git.cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> <3d45f698-08e9-e672-d405-1ab9bfec1222@atmel.com> <20161018184651.GA71760@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.20.5 (3.20.5-1.fc24) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 672 Lines: 12 On Tue, 2016-10-18 at 11:46 -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > I could go with either method I suppose, but I don't personally like > the > idea of splitting out the various bits of MTD into *completely* > independent lines of development. As long as someone (not necessarily > me) can manage pulling the sub-subsystems together, I think it would > make sense to have 1 PR for Linus for non-UBI/FS MTD changes. I think this is a good point. MTD is pretty much a "don't care" subsystem for Linus, an I do not think he'll appreciate 2 or more micro MTD pull requests. It makes a lot more sense to consolidate all this under a single tree MTD tree and make a single pull request.