Re: [PATCH/RFC v13 04/13] DT: Add documentation for the mfd Maxim max77693

From: Sylwester Nawrocki
Date: Mon Mar 23 2015 - 14:28:44 EST


On 23/03/15 16:59, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
>> > On Mon 2015-03-23 15:02:13, Lee Jones wrote:
>>> > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>> > > > On Mon 2015-03-23 12:07:43, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>>> > > > > This patch requires a DT Ack.
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > No, it requires DT people to be notified -- and they were, few times
>>>> > > > by now.
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > They clearly don't care.
>>> > >
>>> > > Well fortunately for the Kernel community, I do care. And as this
>>> > > patch adds 3 new DT properties, has been through many iterations
>>> > > already with vast changes made over that period and there is still
>>> > > some controversy looming, I'm saying that it _does_ require a DT
>>> > > Ack.
>> >
>> > Can you help get that ack, then? As a maintainer, you have better
>> > chance getting reply from DT people than patch submitter.
>
> Hopefully they will see my plea a couple of replies back.
>
> If that fails I'll go poke them via other means. Failing that I'll go
> see them in person and continually hit them with wet fish until one of
> them relents.

Nice, as we can see it doesn't take _that_ much to be a really good
subsystem maintainer. I wish you good luck and hope there will be no
need to realize the very last steps of that clever plan.

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Regards,
Sylwester
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