On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:48:47PM -0700, Aleksey Makarov wrote: > > > On 09/21/2016 10:22 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote: > > > > > > On 09/21/2016 07:38 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:19:35AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I thought you asked Rafael to take them, they are not in my queue > > > > > anymore because of that. Don't try to shop-around for maintainers > > > > > please, that's kind of rude... > > > > > > > > In Aleksey's defense, these patches have been floating around for far > > > > too long, so I can understand his frustration. > > > > > > I understand the frustration as well, cross-maintainer messy patches > > > like this are hard to get merged at times at they fall between the > > > cracks a lot. > > > > > > > But as you said, I really hope Rafael picks these up for 4.9. We need > > > > these patches for ARM server. > > > > > > I thought I saw an email saying he would do so, but it might have been > > > for some other patchset, sorry... > > > > This can be for "ACPI: ARM64: support for ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE": > > > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJZ5v0goXsQ2umcDXU0six+QtxcKGZq7mxhgxuvXTH2iZt6YNA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > As for this patchset, Rafael ACKed the ACPI part: > > > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJZ5v0hdoLTfjrD8+WxSoxM48dqbZK2KwY_h+63kHKHKgO=JFA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > but I can not find any acknowledge from him that he is ready to merge the series. > > On the contrary, he expressed his doubt that he is "the right maintainer to send this to": > > > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJZ5v0gzjtFzig7nEumr83+J2dGb+OA8GNR2i45ZqznfV_hA-A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > I asked the ARM64 people, they said they prefer Rafael to do that: > > > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160909151758.GA11418@xxxxxxx > > > > I interpreted the silence from Rafael as unwillingness to pull the series > > and thought it's OK to ask you. > > > > I am sorry if this looks rude for Rafael, I did not mean that. > > Hi Greg, > > Can you give advise on how to deal with this situation please? > > It looks like Rafael does not want to pull the patches. Some time ago he wrote: > > "Honestly, I'm not sure why I'm regarded as the right maintainer to send this to. > > The only patch here touching generic ACPI code is [3/5] (the [2/5] is > going in through ACPICA) and the rest is all about ARM64 AFAICS. Why > don't you send it to the ARM64 maintainers instead?" > > (https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJZ5v0gzjtFzig7nEumr83+J2dGb+OA8GNR2i45ZqznfV_hA-A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > > ARM64 maintainer said > > "The series should go via Rafael, since the bulk of the changes are > outside of arch/arm64." > > (https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160909151758.GA11418@xxxxxxx) > > So should I continue to try to reach Rafael or ask another maintainer? > Can you pull it for 4.9? crazy, no one wants to touch this :) So, do you have acks from all of the relevant people? If so, sure, I can take it, can you resend me a full copy of the patches and I'll queue them up? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
