Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] gpiolib: add an ioctl() for monitoring line status changes

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:19:59PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> wt., 7 sty 2020 o 15:45 Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:44:55PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:50:28PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Let's try to CC the actual author (Stefani Seibold) and see if the mail
> > > > address works and if he can look at it. Or did you already talk to
> > > > Stefani?
> > > >
> > > > (git blame is always my best friend in cases like this, hehe)
> > >
> > > Recently I started to be smarted in such cases, i.e. I run also
> > > `git log --author='$AUTHOR'` to see if they are still active and
> > > what address had been used lately.
> >
> > ...and another possibility to `git log --grep '$AUTHOR'`.

> So if some module doesn't have an official maintainer listed in
> MAINTAINERS, we should still get a review from the original author?

If you asking me, I do it in a way of playing good citizen. It's not required,
but may give a good feedback.

> KFIFO lives in lib/ - is there even an official maintainer for all
> library helpers?

lib/ is (in most cases) under akpm@ realm.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko