From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org (Nicolas Pitre) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:33:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Update: ARM Sub-Architecture Maintainers workshop at Kernel Summit 2011 In-Reply-To: <4E955A59.4090705@compulab.co.il> References: <4E81CEB8.4090908@compulab.co.il> <4E955A59.4090705@compulab.co.il> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Igor Grinberg wrote: > On 09/27/11 16:25, Igor Grinberg wrote: > > On 08/30/11 09:00, Grant Likely wrote: > >> Still accepting more proposals. Send me the topics you are burning to discuss. > > > > One of the LPC2011's bottom lines was: > > "We need more people involved in ARM maintainership to help > > the sub-architecture maintainers do a better job on > > review/consolidation/generalization/etc. of the code." > > > > Despite the major goal of the DT to reduce the SoC and > > board specific code to absolute minimum, there will still be cases > > (e.g. discrete power management circuitry) when there is no > > appropriate DT solution available and the board file > > is a necessity. Also there are already many boards that will remain > > and will not be converted to DT. > > > > Bringing all the above together, I'd like to propose a new "job" > > for maintaining board specific code on a cross-platform basis. > > > > Pros: > > 1) There might (I have not checked this, but I'm sure there is) be > > code in the existing board files (that are not likely to go away > > at least in a couple of years) that can be consolidated and > > may be even in a cross-platform manner. > > 2) Lower the work load from SoC maintainers (that don't have enough > > time to care much about the board specific changes). > > 3) Some more eyes to review the newly submitted code. > > > > Cons: > > 1) Resulting overhead for the code to go upstream. > > 2) Possible addition of merge conflicts. > > > > > > I'd like to hear, what do you think of the above proposal? > > Any thoughts? Yes? No? Why? WTF? Well... Please see http://lwn.net/Articles/443510/. Since then, ARnd Bergmann has led the arm-soc repository maintenance effort as you might have noticed. Other cleanup/consolidation projects are also progressing in parallel. Obviously, as always, we would always benefit from more reviewers and more people in maintainership roles. The general situation has improved since a couple months ago, but any additional suggestions you might have will always be welcome. Nicolas