Status of Power Supply Subsystem

Status of Power Supply Subsystem

[Sebastian Reichel]

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Hi,

It seems the maintainer of the power supply subsystem, Dmitry, has gone missing
in action since about mid-Feburary. I couldn't find any mail from him on the
usual mailinglists, he did not reply to any of my mails and the power supply
subsystem git tree mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file has not been touched since
2014-02-01 [0].

Is there a standard procedure to handle subsystem maintainers, who are missing
in action? I have patches for the power supply subsystem and have seen more
patches from other developers on the mailinglists.

[0] git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git

-- Sebastian

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Re: Status of Power Supply Subsystem

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

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On Friday, May 16, 2014 08:38:14 PM Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> It seems the maintainer of the power supply subsystem, Dmitry, has gone missing
> in action since about mid-Feburary. I couldn't find any mail from him on the
> usual mailinglists, he did not reply to any of my mails and the power supply
> subsystem git tree mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file has not been touched since
> 2014-02-01 [0].
> 
> Is there a standard procedure to handle subsystem maintainers, who are missing
> in action? I have patches for the power supply subsystem and have seen more
> patches from other developers on the mailinglists.
> 
> [0] git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git

You can volunteer to take over the maintainership, but then I guess it would
make sense to push this through the PM tree anyway, so please feel free to
send a pull request with those fixes to me.

Thanks!

-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.

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[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Sebastian Reichel]

Take over maintanence for orphaned power supply subsystem
and move the git tree to a new kernel.org based repository.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
---
Hi,

As suggested by Rafael in [0] I volunteer to take over the orphaned
power supply subsystem.

[0] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1744793.html

-- Sebastian
---
 MAINTAINERS | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6c484ac..54d9cbf 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6928,9 +6928,8 @@ F:	include/linux/timer*
 F:	kernel/*timer*
 
 POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS
-M:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
-M:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
-T:	git git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git
+M:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply.git
 S:	Maintained
 F:	include/linux/power_supply.h
 F:	drivers/power/
-- 
2.0.0

Re: Status of Power Supply Subsystem

[Sebastian Reichel]

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Hi Rafael,

> You can volunteer to take over the maintainership, but then I guess it would
> make sense to push this through the PM tree anyway, so please feel free to
> send a pull request with those fixes to me.

I waited a bit to see if maybe Dmitry or David want to give feedback. But I
haven't received anything, so I volunteer to take this subsystem over.

For now I have prepared a branch containing a single fix, which should be
applied to 3.16 and added a signed tag. Since linux-next still uses the
unmaintained power supply git tree the patch has not been in linux-next.
Apart from that I created a new branch for 3.17 stuff (DT support for
drivers, non-critical fixes, ...).

I will also send a patch for the MAINTAINERS file in a jiffy. I have not
included it in the branch, so that all involved persons get another chance
to complain.

-- Sebastian

The following changes since commit 951e273060d15b233a7f7ccaf76ba682b5b05a03:

  Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip (2014-06-05 12:51:05 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:


  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply.git tags/power-supply-for-3.16

for you to fetch changes up to 381078e8865725ee95efadf0d988d8e24cddf088:

  bq2415x_charger: Fix Atomic Sleep Bug (2014-06-08 14:46:16 +0200)

----------------------------------------------------------------
power supply changes for the 3.16 series:

- Just a fix for atomic sleep bug

----------------------------------------------------------------
Sebastian Reichel (1):
      bq2415x_charger: Fix Atomic Sleep Bug

 drivers/power/bq2415x_charger.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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Re: Status of Power Supply Subsystem

[David Woodhouse]

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On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 17:36 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> 
> I waited a bit to see if maybe Dmitry or David want to give feedback.
> But I haven't received anything, so I volunteer to take this subsystem
> over.

I've never really done much with the subsystem except getting Dmitry set
up to maintain it. I certainly have no objection if you want to take it
over and Dmitry isn't objecting.

If you like, you can send me a SSH public key and I'll give you access
to the existing git tree on git.infradead.org to take it over.

You can work in coordination with Dmitry if he comes back to life, that
way.

-- 
dwmw2


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Re: Status of Power Supply Subsystem

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]

Hello, colleagues,

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 7:53 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 17:36 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
>>
>> I waited a bit to see if maybe Dmitry or David want to give feedback.
>> But I haven't received anything, so I volunteer to take this subsystem
>> over.

I'm sorry, I had too much trouble on my work to be able to think about
community projects. My work load is now getting back to normal,
so I will probably have more time.

>
> I've never really done much with the subsystem except getting Dmitry set
> up to maintain it. I certainly have no objection if you want to take it
> over and Dmitry isn't objecting.

I'd welcome any help, team or co-maintenance of any kind. What do you
think about patchwork?

BTW, David, I remember several people (including myself) asking for
a separate power-related ML to be set up on the infradead.org. Could you
please set it up? I think it might help all of us.

> If you like, you can send me a SSH public key and I'll give you access
> to the existing git tree on git.infradead.org to take it over.
>
> You can work in coordination with Dmitry if he comes back to life, that
> way.

I'm doing a scan over my patches inbox during next few days (yes, huge
task after so long time). I'll just base it on your kernel. After -rc1 we
can think about something sane.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

Re: Status of Power Supply Subsystem

[Sebastian Reichel]

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On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 08:59:35PM +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> Hello, colleagues,

Hi, welcome back :)

> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 7:53 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 17:36 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> >>
> >> I waited a bit to see if maybe Dmitry or David want to give feedback.
> >> But I haven't received anything, so I volunteer to take this subsystem
> >> over.
> 
> I'm sorry, I had too much trouble on my work to be able to think about
> community projects. My work load is now getting back to normal,
> so I will probably have more time.

No problem. It would be nice if you appoint somebody to be a
temporary maintainer for your subsystems next time.

> > I've never really done much with the subsystem except getting Dmitry set
> > up to maintain it. I certainly have no objection if you want to take it
> > over and Dmitry isn't objecting.
> 
> I'd welcome any help, team or co-maintenance of any kind. What do you
> think about patchwork?
>
> BTW, David, I remember several people (including myself) asking for
> a separate power-related ML to be set up on the infradead.org. Could you
> please set it up? I think it might help all of us.

I think having a power-supply mailinglist and patchwork would be
really helpful.

> > If you like, you can send me a SSH public key and I'll give you access
> > to the existing git tree on git.infradead.org to take it over.
> >
> > You can work in coordination with Dmitry if he comes back to life, that
> > way.
> 
> I'm doing a scan over my patches inbox during next few days (yes, huge
> task after so long time). I'll just base it on your kernel. After -rc1 we
> can think about something sane.

My patch [0] was the only fix suitable for -rc2+ from all power
supply related mails I could find on LKML. I have sent a pull
request for that one to Rafael.

You have a couple of weeks more time to catch up if you are fine
with him pulling the patch.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply.git/commit/?h=next

-- Sebastian

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Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Stephen Rothwell]

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Hi Sebastian,

On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:32:09 +0200 Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Take over maintanence for orphaned power supply subsystem
> and move the git tree to a new kernel.org based repository.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
> ---
> Hi,
> 
> As suggested by Rafael in [0] I volunteer to take over the orphaned
> power supply subsystem.
> 
> [0] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1744793.html
> 
>  POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS
> -M:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
> -M:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> -T:	git git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git

OK, the master branch of that tree is in linux-next as the "battery"
tree.  My contact for that tree is Anton Vorontsov (cc'd) and its
latest commit is from January.  So should I dump that tree in favour of
the one below with you as the contact?  If so, whatr branch of that
tree should I fetch?  (And should I change its linux-next name?)

> +M:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply.git

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]

Hello,

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:32:09 +0200 Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Take over maintanence for orphaned power supply subsystem
>> and move the git tree to a new kernel.org based repository.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
>> ---
>> Hi,
>>
>> As suggested by Rafael in [0] I volunteer to take over the orphaned
>> power supply subsystem.
>>
>> [0] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1744793.html
>>
>>  POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS
>> -M:   Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
>> -M:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
>> -T:   git git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git
>
> OK, the master branch of that tree is in linux-next as the "battery"
> tree.  My contact for that tree is Anton Vorontsov (cc'd) and its
> latest commit is from January.  So should I dump that tree in favour of
> the one below with you as the contact?  If so, whatr branch of that
> tree should I fetch?  (And should I change its linux-next name?)

Not at this point, we will reconsider after -rc1.

>
>> +M:   Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
>> +T:   git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply.git
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au



-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Sebastian Reichel]

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Hi Stephen,

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:20:42AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:32:09 +0200 Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Take over maintanence for orphaned power supply subsystem
> > and move the git tree to a new kernel.org based repository.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As suggested by Rafael in [0] I volunteer to take over the orphaned
> > power supply subsystem.
> > 
> > [0] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1744793.html
> > 
> >  POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS
> > -M:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
> > -M:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> > -T:	git git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git
> 
> OK, the master branch of that tree is in linux-next as the "battery"
> tree.  My contact for that tree is Anton Vorontsov (cc'd) and its
> latest commit is from January.

He switched with Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov in January:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/MAINTAINERS?id=573189354b7c97cd2256b87cf083ee435584594e

> So should I dump that tree in favour of the one below with you as
> the contact?  If so, whatr branch of that tree should I fetch?
> (And should I change its linux-next name?)

No. David Woodhouse offered me git access to the existing tree
yesterday and Dmitry suddenly gave a life sign again:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/14/94
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/14/106

In short: ignore the patch. Probably your contact should be changed,
though.

-- Sebastian

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Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Stephen Rothwell]

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Hi Dmitry,

On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:31:24 +0400 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > OK, the master branch of that tree is in linux-next as the "battery"
> > tree.  My contact for that tree is Anton Vorontsov (cc'd) and its
> > latest commit is from January.  So should I dump that tree in favour of
> > the one below with you as the contact?  If so, whatr branch of that
> > tree should I fetch?  (And should I change its linux-next name?)
> 
> Not at this point, we will reconsider after -rc1.

I have just changed the conact for the battery tree to you.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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[PATCHv2] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Sebastian Reichel]

Take over maintanence for orphaned power supply subsystem
and assign linux-pm@vger.kernel.org as mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
---
Changes since PATCHv1 [0]:
 * Add linux-pm@vger.kernel.org as mailing list for
   the power supply subsystem
 * Do not change the git tree
   (I will get access to the tree on infradead.org)
 * Do not remove existing maintainers
   (So that they can can take over again when they return)

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/14/89
---
 MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6c484ac..14e227b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6928,8 +6928,10 @@ F:	include/linux/timer*
 F:	kernel/*timer*
 
 POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS
+M:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
 M:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
 M:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
+L:	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
 T:	git git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git
 S:	Maintained
 F:	include/linux/power_supply.h
-- 
2.0.1

Re: [PATCHv2] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> wrote:
> Take over maintanence for orphaned power supply subsystem
> and assign linux-pm@vger.kernel.org as mailing list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
> ---
> Changes since PATCHv1 [0]:
>  * Add linux-pm@vger.kernel.org as mailing list for
>    the power supply subsystem
>  * Do not change the git tree
>    (I will get access to the tree on infradead.org)
>  * Do not remove existing maintainers
>    (So that they can can take over again when they return)

Acked-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>

>
> [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/14/89


-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

Re: [PATCHv2] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 12:21:03 AM Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Take over maintanence for orphaned power supply subsystem
> > and assign linux-pm@vger.kernel.org as mailing list.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > Changes since PATCHv1 [0]:
> >  * Add linux-pm@vger.kernel.org as mailing list for
> >    the power supply subsystem
> >  * Do not change the git tree
> >    (I will get access to the tree on infradead.org)
> >  * Do not remove existing maintainers
> >    (So that they can can take over again when they return)
> 
> Acked-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>

OK

I suppose everyone involved will be fine if I take this for 3.17?

Rafael

Re: [PATCHv2] MAINTAINERS: power_supply: update maintainership

[Sebastian Reichel]

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Hi,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:09:43PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, July 17, 2014 12:21:03 AM Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > Take over maintanence for orphaned power supply subsystem
> > > and assign linux-pm@vger.kernel.org as mailing list.
> > > [...]
> 
> I suppose everyone involved will be fine if I take this for 3.17?

Sounds fine to me, thanks.

-- Sebastian

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