RE: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Take over maintenance

[Arun MURTHY]

> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Robert Morell <rmorell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Andrew: As previously discussed this patch makes me the new maintainer
> for the pwm-backlight driver. I contacted Richard Purdie and requested his
> Acked-by for this because he's the backlight subsystem maintainer.
> Unfortunately he hasn't answered yet. Looking at the commit log, every
> commit in the last 2+ years has gone through your tree, which seems to be
> reason enough for me to take over this driver but I still wanted to get an
> Acked-by at least from you so that this doesn't look like hijacking. I've also
> Cc'ed a couple of people that have done work on the driver in the past to
> give them a chance to object or send their Acked-by.

Acked-by: Arun Murthy<arun.murthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I hope now the review process will be fast instead of going through Andrew's
tree.
All the Best!
Now I think I can re-start my pwm core driver thread, since I have a maintainer
for this :-)

Thanks and Regards,
Arun R Murthy
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