Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver]

[Yakir Yang]

On 03/22/2016 08:41 PM, 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.

Wow, thanks all ! such cool news  :-D  I'll prepare my pull request soon


- Yakir