Hi, Jason Cooper <ja...@lakedaemon.net> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:34:09PM +0100, Arnaud Ebalard wrote: >> I have a very simple driver (support for reading and setting the time) >> for a RTC chip (Intersil ISL 12057) but cannot find anyone to get it >> Acked and queued for v3.14. In v3.14, there should be at least three >> users of the driver (ReadyNAS 102, 104 and 2120) if I meet -rc5 cutoff >> for associated .dts changes. > > The -rc5 cutoff isn't a hard line. It's also mvebu-specific. eg, We > need things _posted_ a week or so before arm-soc's cutoff of -rc6 so we > have time to get the pull request in. If it needs to go through > mvebu/arm-soc, once it's posted, you're good. I understand. But I guess you will not (for valid reason) accept .dts changes to reference a rtc driver that is not on good track towards -next. This is the issue I try and solve. >> I never heard of *listed* RTC maintainer during all the review process >> on rtc-linux list (v0 sent in october); I dug the list archives and when >> this previously happened, someone else (e.g. Andrew Morton) was kind >> enough to handle the patches: >> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg292187.html > > Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Alessandro has been active for a > while and Andrew Morton has indeed been picking up the slack. S-o-B's > confirm this. > > I haven't worked with Andrew enough to know his workflow, but I imagine > he can take patches much closer to the merge window than we can. > >> I wonder if someone (Andrew? Stephen? Jason?) would be kind enough to >> take care of the v6 I just sent [1]. > > I don't mind routing it though mvebu/arm-soc since the only consumers > are currently mvebu boards, but I'd like to hear from Andrew that this > is ok. I will do what you think is the best. Cheers, a+ -- 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/