On 07/03/2012 10:59 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, July 03, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> On 07/02/2012 09:49 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Monday, July 02, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >>>> >>>> On 07/02/2012 11:09 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Daniel Lezcano >>>>> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> we discussed last week to put in place a tree grouping the cpuidle >>>>>> modifications [1]. Is it possible to add the tree ? >>>>>> >>>>>> git://git.linaro.org/people/dlezcano/cpuidle-next.git #cpuidle-next >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for doing this. >>>>> >>>>> Since MAINTAINERS is lacking a listed maintainer for cpuidle, >>>>> are you also going to add yourself as maintainer and list this >>>>> tree in that file, or is this a one-time exercise? >>>> >>>> I will be glad to do that if Len and Rafael agree on that. >>> >>> Len Brown has been a cpuidle maintainer for some time now. Moreover, >>> he's been taking patches, but Linus refused to pull his entire tree during the >>> last merge window (as you probably know). I honestly don't think this is >>> a good enough reason for replacing him as a cpuidle maintainer by force. >>> >>> So, you should ask Len whether or not he's willing to pass the cpuidle >>> maintenance to someone else. >> >> No, no. You are misunderstanding what I am proposing. I don't want to >> replace Len I just want to act as a "proxy". I understand a maintainer >> can be busy and could not have enough time to take care of the subsystem >> is maintaining during a period because he's too busy for that. >> Trust me, I fully understand that :) >> >> As there are a lot of modifications of cpuidle, I am proposing to take >> the patches when they are acked-by, to create a consolidated tree, >> providing a better integration for cpuidle, a wider testing, preventing >> conflicts and facilitating Len's work if he agrees to pull from this tree. >> >> If that makes sense to add myself to the MAINTAINER file as a >> co-maintainer (understand: send to me also the patches, so I can take >> care of them if Len does not respond), I am ok with that. >> >> It is just about helping :) > > Cool. :-) > > So do you have a branch in the cpuidle-next.git tree that isn't going to > be rebased? No. I am following Linus tree and adding the patches on top of it. >>> I know that Len hasn't been responsive recently, but I also know that he >>> _does_ respond to inquiries sent directly to him. >> >> Do you mean to its intel address ? > > Yes, CCing the Len's Intel address won't hurt I think. Ok, I will ping him and give him the pointers to the discussion we had. Thanks -- Daniel -- <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook | <http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter | <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog
