From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752002AbcCWBIm (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:08:42 -0400 Received: from regular1.263xmail.com ([211.150.99.132]:39153 "EHLO regular1.263xmail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752992AbcCWBIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:08:25 -0400 X-263anti-spam: KSV:0; X-MAIL-GRAY: 0 X-MAIL-DELIVERY: 1 X-KSVirus-check: 0 X-ABS-CHECKED: 4 X-ADDR-CHECKED: 0 X-RL-SENDER: mark.yao@rock-chips.com X-FST-TO: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-SENDER-IP: 58.22.7.114 X-LOGIN-NAME: mark.yao@rock-chips.com X-UNIQUE-TAG: X-ATTACHMENT-NUM: 0 X-DNS-TYPE: 0 Message-ID: <56F1EC75.5010903@rock-chips.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:08:05 +0800 From: Mark yao User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Airlie , Russell King - ARM Linux CC: Inki Dae , =?UTF-8?B?SGVpa28gU3TDvGJuZXI=?= , David Airlie , Ajay Kumar , Javier Martinez Canillas , Doug Anderson , Jingoo Han , Yakir Yang , Andrzej Hajda , Joonyoung Shim , Seung-Woo Kim , Kyungmin Park , Thierry Reding , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Rob Herring , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , linux-samsung-soc , Pawel Moll , Ian Campbell , "open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..." , Emil Velikov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Daniel Kurtz , Kishon Vijay Abraham I , Kukjin Kim , Sean Paul , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Kumar Gala , Ajay kumar , Rob Herring , Andy Yan , Gustavo Padovan , Caesar Wang , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver] References: <1455534485-1154-1-git-send-email-ykk@rock-chips.com> <1919945.Y1tg0YzXlm@diego> <56F1CAEB.3080701@samsung.com> <8949624.HmxDpZAlt2@diego> <56F1D0AD.8030905@samsung.com> <20160322233906.GP19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <56F1DB27.4040001@samsung.com> <20160323000835.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2016年03月23日 08:41, 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. > > > Sure, these patches looks cool, I think it's ready to be merged, I'd like to give a Acked-by on rockchip side. -- Ｍark Yao