Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Some small cleanup/fixes for SPMI driver

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 15 2020 - 08:54:30 EST


On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:26:36PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (2020-10-03 03:56:53)
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Quoting Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2020-09-28 23:22:11)
> > > > Hi Stephen,
> > > >
> > > > While double-checking against yesterday's linux-next, I noticed
> > > > that those two patches weren't merge yet.
> > > >
> > > > As you replied to both with your Reviewed-by:, are you expecting
> > > > them to be merged via someone's tree, or are you intending
> > > > to merge them via your tree?
> > >
> > > Per the maintainers file I am a reviewer not a maintainer of SPMI.
> > > Usually Greg applies patches here. I can collect patches and send them
> > > on up if that helps.
> >
> > Who is the maintainer? Having a "reviewer only" is confusing to
> > everyone involved, as you might have someone who can review patches, but
> > no one to actually merge them anywhere?
> >
> > Not a good situation :(
> >
>
> Ok. I can spin up an SPMI tree on kernel.org and make this change to the
> MAINTAINERS file (plus whatever tree path I can make). Do you want me to
> send you patches in email form as a pull request? I imagine the patch
> load will be fairly low.

email form is great, I can handle those easily. IF you really want to
create a git tree, I can pull from that too, but for low-volume stuff,
it's usually not worth it.

thanks,

greg k-h