From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753182AbbCXHHa (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 03:07:30 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54493 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752386AbbCXHH1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 03:07:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:07:25 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: anish Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Linux-ALSA Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for maxim codecs In-Reply-To: References: <1425338170-30924-1-git-send-email-yesanishhere@gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/24.4 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Mon, 23 Mar 2015 23:39:28 -0700, anish wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:04:26 -0700, > > anish wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> I was wondering if this patch is in any of the queue? > > > > I guess it's not. One of the reasons is that you don't know whom to > > reach; it's a problem as a subsystem maintainer. > > > > Also, you never seem to appear in the commit history of these codes. > > Have you been involved with the development? If so, it'd be better to > > have Acks from people who actually wrote/committed the codes of these > > codec drivers. > > The reason for this change is that we want to monitor the codec drivers > related to maxim chip as we saw couple of changes which shouldn't have > been taken and since we were not involved when the review was being > done we couldn't contribute our opinion. > > What is the best way to go about this? We have given maxim driver > code to our various clients and some of the clients contributed the > code to linux kernel. I will try to get acks from them anyway. How about start contributing by sending fix patches in a proper manner, if anything should be fixed? The maintainership is given mostly per trust in open source world. Sending patches and communicating with other community members are the best way to gain a trust in Linux kernel development. thanks, Takashi > > Thanks, > > > > > > thanks, > > > > Takashi > > > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Anish Kumar wrote: > >> > This patch adds maintainer for maxim audio codecs. > >> > Signed-off-by: Anish Kumar > >> > --- > >> > MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++ > >> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > >> > > >> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > >> > index 8bdd7a7..2128586 100644 > >> > --- a/MAINTAINERS > >> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > >> > @@ -7387,6 +7387,13 @@ S: Supported > >> > F: sound/soc/ > >> > F: include/sound/soc* > >> > > >> > +MAXIM INTEGRATED SOC CODEC DRIVER > >> > +M: Anish Kumar > >> > +L: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org (moderated for non-subscribers) > >> > +S: Maintained > >> > +F: sound/soc/codecs/max* > >> > +F: include/sound/max* > >> > + > >> > SPARC + UltraSPARC (sparc/sparc64) > >> > M: "David S. Miller" > >> > L: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org > >> > -- > >> > 1.9.3 > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Alsa-devel mailing list > >> Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > >> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > >> >