Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Samsung pinctrl entries

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 14 of June 2013 07:47:15 Kukjin Kim wrote:
>> Tomasz Figa wrote:
>> > On Thursday 13 of June 2013 10:05:44 Doug Anderson wrote:
>> > > It's convenient if get_maintainer suggests sending samsung/exynos
>> > > pinctrl changes to linux-samsung-soc and to Kukjin.  Add an entry
>> > > for
>> > > that.
>> >
>> > Well, if we are already at it, we could list the actual maintainers of
>> > the driver.
>> >
>> > The original maintainer was Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Should be original author?! I think, original maintainer was/is Linus
>> Walleij.
>
> Linus is the maintainer of the pin control subsystem. In addition drivers
> can have their own maintainers, but of course they are lower in the
> hierarchy than subsystem maintainers.

Well I don't really like hiearchies, as I'm basically anarchist :-P

Anyway, as long as the get-mainater script output both Thomas
and my name I don't really care, the only practical intent with
this file is to be able to mail the right people.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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