Re: CPU frequency drivers MAINTAINERS update

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, May 11, 2012, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:16:25PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>  > On Saturday, May 05, 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>  > > Hi Dave,
>  > > 
>  > > On Friday, May 04, 2012, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > > Remove myself as cpufreq maintainer.
>  > > > x86 driver changes can go through the regular x86/ACPI trees.
>  > > > ARM driver changes through the ARM trees.
>  > > > cpufreq core changes are rare these days, and can just go to lkml/direct.
>  > > > 
>  > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  > > 
>  > > Would you mind if I took over the maintenance of cpufreq, so that it goes
>  > > along with the other core power management code?
>  > 
>  > I'm taking the silence as "no, I wouldn't". :-)
> 
> Sure. I'll still be looking at it occasionally so I'll be around to ack
> things if necessary.

Cool, thanks!

> I just don't have time to deal with build-testing
> architectures I don't care about for eg, and dealing with the inevitable fallout
> when things break.

Sure.

> The only words of advice I give to you or whoever takes over, is to push back
> on adding more sysfs knobs to cpufreq. There's no end to what people want to do,
> and adding "just one more knob" seems to be the default action. It's already
> gotten out of hand, and more knobs aren't always the right answer.

I agree.

Thanks a lot,
Rafael
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