Re: [GIT PULL] drm/mediatek: MT8173 gamma & dither support

[Emil Velikov]

Hi Bibby,

On 27 June 2016 at 12:29, Bibby Hsieh <bibby.hsieh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 12:20 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>
>> On 06/24/2016 09:27 AM, Bibby Hsieh wrote:
>> > Hi Dave,
>> >
>> > Please consider merging this tag, which contains the v2 MT8173 gamma & dither function patches I sent on 2016-06-17, rebased onto v4.7-rc1. There have been no further comments.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Bibby
>> >
>> > The following changes since commit 1a695a905c18548062509178b98bc91e67510864:
>> >
>> >   Linux 4.7-rc1 (2016-05-29 16:29:24 GMT)
>> >
>> > are available in the git repository at:
>> >
>> >   git@xxxxxxxxxx:BibbyHsieh/linux4.7-rc1.git
>> >
>> > for you to fetch changes up to dd0eb773bc125f5e6bca735d19c08500dc3730f9:
>> >
>> >   drm/mediatek: Add gamma correction
>> >
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> As far as I can see, your branch has 3 patches on top from Eddie. It
>> seems to me as if you didn't send your patches to the mailinglist before?
>> Anyway this branch does not fulfill the rules to get merged into the
>> linux kernel.
>>
>> Why do you send a pull request? The normal process is to send the
>> patches via email and if the maintainer wants you can send a pull
>> request once the patches are ready to be merged.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>>
>
> I sent v1 and v2 on 2016-06-14 and 06-17 respectively [0-8].
> After I made some modifications according to Daniel Vetter's comments,
> there had been no further comments and I sent the pull request as the
> other sub-sys.
>
> I'm sorry for my mistake, I will re-arrange the tree for upstream.
> Next time, I will check with maintainer by email first, and sent the
> pull request.
>
It might be a bit hard to find out who's the maintainer considering
MAINTAINERS has no entry for this driver.

Looking at how things are going Philipp Zabel will be the more likely
person for the task, yet I would be nice if someone from the Mediatek
squad is helping him out - CK Hu perhaps ?

Regards,
Emil