On 28.10.2015 18:21, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Hello Lee, > (...) Let me only add something to certain part of your email...
>> But you aren't maintaining the driver i.e. you don't collect patches >> and *maintain* them on an upstream branch. Granted some of you guys >> are doing a great job of maintaining branches on your downstream or >> BSP kernels, but conduct a Reviewer type role for upstream. >> >> You guys are pushing back like this is some kind of demotion. That's >> not the case at all. All it does is better describe the (very worthy) >> function you *actually* provide. >> > > But I think it makes description less accurate in fact, since without > $SUBJECT get_maintainers.pl reports for example: > > Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlow...@samsung.com> (supporter:MAXIM PMIC > AND MUIC DRIVERS FOR EXYNOS BASED BO...) > Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> (supporter:MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES (MFD)) > > and after the change: > > Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlow...@samsung.com> (reviewer) > Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> (supporter:MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES (MFD)) > > He also works for Samsung so the driver is not only maintained but > supported since he can actually take care of it as a part of his day > job (if I understood correctly). Oh, that's interesting semantic change. Yes, in that particular case, I added the "supported" tag on purpose - it's part of my job. It is connected with what I said in other reply - we have deep interest in these drivers. Not only "I will review the code if I have the time". No. I will devote my time to ensure that the code is working on our products. Best regards, Krzysztof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
