From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: linux-next : cpuidle - could you add my tree please Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:56:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4FF2EC1A.7020702@linaro.org> References: <4FDEE98D.7010802@linaro.org> <201207022149.36629.rjw@sisk.pl> <4FF21D48.50301@linaro.org> <201207031059.13758.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201207031059.13758.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Linus Walleij , Stephen Rothwell , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Lists Linaro-dev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kevin Hilman , Peter De Schrijver , Amit Kucheria , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Colin Cross , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Rob Lee , "lenb@kernel.org" List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On 07/03/2012 10:59 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, July 03, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> On 07/02/2012 09:49 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Monday, July 02, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >>>> >>>> On 07/02/2012 11:09 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Daniel Lezcano >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> we discussed last week to put in place a tree grouping the cpuid= le >>>>>> modifications [1]. Is it possible to add the tree ? >>>>>> >>>>>> git://git.linaro.org/people/dlezcano/cpuidle-next.git #cpuidle-n= ext >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for doing this. >>>>> >>>>> Since MAINTAINERS is lacking a listed maintainer for cpuidle, >>>>> are you also going to add yourself as maintainer and list this >>>>> tree in that file, or is this a one-time exercise? >>>> >>>> I will be glad to do that if Len and Rafael agree on that. >>> >>> Len Brown has been a cpuidle maintainer for some time now. Moreove= r, >>> he's been taking patches, but Linus refused to pull his entire tree= during the >>> last merge window (as you probably know). I honestly don't think t= his is >>> a good enough reason for replacing him as a cpuidle maintainer by f= orce. >>> >>> So, you should ask Len whether or not he's willing to pass the cpui= dle >>> maintenance to someone else. >> >> No, no. You are misunderstanding what I am proposing. I don't want t= o >> replace Len I just want to act as a "proxy". I understand a maintain= er >> can be busy and could not have enough time to take care of the subsy= stem >> is maintaining during a period because he's too busy for that. >> Trust me, I fully understand that :) >> >> As there are a lot of modifications of cpuidle, I am proposing to ta= ke >> the patches when they are acked-by, to create a consolidated tree, >> providing a better integration for cpuidle, a wider testing, prevent= ing >> conflicts and facilitating Len's work if he agrees to pull from this= tree. >> >> If that makes sense to add myself to the MAINTAINER file as a >> co-maintainer (understand: send to me also the patches, so I can tak= e >> care of them if Len does not respond), I am ok with that. >> >> It is just about helping :) >=20 > Cool. :-) >=20 > So do you have a branch in the cpuidle-next.git tree that isn't going= to > be rebased? No. I am following Linus tree and adding the patches on top of it. >>> I know that Len hasn't been responsive recently, but I also know th= at he >>> _does_ respond to inquiries sent directly to him. >> >> Do you mean to its intel address ? >=20 > Yes, CCing the Len's Intel address won't hurt I think. Ok, I will ping him and give him the pointers to the discussion we had. Thanks -- Daniel --=20 Linaro.org =E2=94=82 Open source software for= ARM SoCs =46ollow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog