From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752619Ab2IZGoN (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:44:13 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:6179 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751855Ab2IZGoM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:44:12 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,488,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="149165644" Message-ID: <1348641845.13371.132.camel@smile> Subject: Re: [PATCHv1 6/6] MAINTAINERS: add recently created files to dw_dmac section From: Andy Shevchenko To: Joe Perches Cc: Viresh Kumar , Vinod Koul , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:44:05 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1348592250.2648.7.camel@joe-AO722> References: <1348575190-11761-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <1348575190-11761-7-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <1348579169.2476.1.camel@joe-AO722> <1348580274.13371.127.camel@smile> <1348592250.2648.7.camel@joe-AO722> Organization: Intel Finland Oy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.3-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 09:57 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 16:37 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 06:19 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > You also added yourself as a maintainer. > > > Congrats/sympathies, etc... > > Actually I prefer to be just a supporter, because I introduce few > > additional files. But if I understood correctly, there is no way to > > distinguish person statuses in one section. > True, the status refers to the section, not the person. > Supported is a nominally "higher" level of stewardship > than maintainer. Supported is supposed to mean you get > paid to look after the code. Ah, thanks for explanation. Apparently I misunderstood the meaning of that status. So, I meant one level more, than just a contributor. > I think of these section blocks as one of the ways to > get the appropriate people to look at patches and bug > reports. Okay, that what I was thinking to fit myself into. -- Andy Shevchenko Intel Finland Oy