Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for arm64 acpi

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On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 10:59:46AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
>> I agree with merging it with the rest of the series, but comparing it
>> to a blank cheque is not appropriate. Merely having an entry in
>> MAINTAINERS doesn't immediately confer trust or ability to merge code,
>> but it does tell people who to talk to when looking at ACPI on ARM.
>> You can bet that neither Linus, Len or Rafael will merge ARM ACPI
>> trees from them if you disagree. (And even if they did, you would
>> yell, and Linus would revert it).
>
> If you want to know who to talk to regarding a subsystem then you use
> get_maintainer.pl and/or git blame. Regardless of this patch, neither of
> those tools will identify Graeme or Hanjun as the contacts for ACPI on ARM.
>
> I think we're in agreement, but just to spell it out: this patch should be
> included at the end of a series adding the files which will be maintained.

Yes, agreed.

g.
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