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Subject: Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix
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On 03/22/2016 08:41 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>> So although it's small framework or just subdirectory, we would need
>>> someone who can manage the framework to avoid further confusion if
>>> necessary.
>> So maybe it just doesn't need a maintainer, and maybe those the owner
>> of the bridge driver should be responsible for choosing the tree which
>> it's merged through along with updates.  That's how dw-hdmi has been
>> managed on the whole.
>>
>> It also means that the bridge driver maintainer is able to test changes
>> to the bridge driver, rather than having some over-arching bridge
>> subdirectory maintainer who doesn't have a clue whether the changes
>> work on the hardware.
>>
>> IMHO, having bridge driver authors/maintainers look after their own
>> code has many advantages.
> The author just send me a pull request with acks from a git tree
> that hopefully both people agreed and tested from. No need to
> send this via another maintainer layer.
>
> Dave.
>

Wow, thanks all ! such cool news  :-D  I'll prepare my pull request soon


- Yakir