On 20 September 2012 16:20, Thierry Reding <[email protected]> wrote: > Since the pwm-backlight driver is lacking a proper maintainer and is the > heaviest user of the PWM framework I'm taking over maintenance. > > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <[email protected]> > Cc: Arun Murthy <[email protected]> > Cc: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> > Cc: Robert Morell <[email protected]> > Cc: Dilan Lee <[email protected]> > Cc: Axel Lin <[email protected]> > Cc: Mark Brown <[email protected]> > Cc: Alexandre Courbot <[email protected]> > Cc: Sachin Kamat <[email protected]> > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sachin Kamat <[email protected]> > --- > Andrew: As previously discussed this patch makes me the new maintainer > for the pwm-backlight driver. I contacted Richard Purdie and requested > his Acked-by for this because he's the backlight subsystem maintainer. > Unfortunately he hasn't answered yet. Looking at the commit log, every > commit in the last 2+ years has gone through your tree, which seems to > be reason enough for me to take over this driver but I still wanted to > get an Acked-by at least from you so that this doesn't look like > hijacking. I've also Cc'ed a couple of people that have done work on > the driver in the past to give them a chance to object or send their > Acked-by. > > Obviously I will take this patch through my tree so this is not a > request to include it in your tree. > > MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 61ad79e..a6f023e 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -5543,6 +5543,8 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/ > F: include/linux/pwm.h > F: include/linux/of_pwm.h > F: drivers/pwm/ > +F: drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c > +F: include/linux/pwm_backlight.h > > PXA2xx/PXA3xx SUPPORT > M: Eric Miao <[email protected]> > -- > 1.7.12 > -- With warm regards, Sachin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
