RE: [RESEND] [PATCH V1 2/2] rtc: da9063: RTC driver

From: Opensource [Steve Twiss]
Date: Wed Mar 26 2014 - 04:11:23 EST


>> I realise that you and Alessandro are very busy (I have not often seen
>> Alessandro do any posting in the past fortnight), but a couple of weeks
>> ago I sent an RTC patch set with register.h changes ...
>>
>> >> From: Opensource [Steve Twiss] <stwiss.opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> Add the RTC driver for DA9063.
>> <snip>
>> >> The original patch is here:
>> >> - https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/6/346
>>
>> I believe you applied the first half of my alterations here:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/6/348
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/10/369
>>
>> And the other half, was Acked by Alessandro Zummo here:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/7/112
>>
>> On 11 March 2014 12:27, Lee Jones wrote:
>> >
>> >Alessandro,
>> > Are you happy for me to take this set through the MFD tree and send
>> > you a pull-request for an immutable branch?
>> >
>>
>> There was a suggestion that this RTC patch could be taken through by you?
>> Can I ask if this still an option please?
>>
>> I tried to contact Alessandro after about 1 week, but I guess that other things
>> are getting in the way and I have not had a reply.
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/21/248
>>
>> The reason I ask -- is because I have several patches waiting to add support
>> for an older variant of the silicon, but in order to send those changes I will
>> need to patch the pending RTC with the updates.
>
>I can't really take the RTC patches without Alessandro's consent.
>Besides, the merge window is going to open in about a week. I'm sorry
>to say this, but I think this set is best left for v3.16 now. That
>also gives Alessandro a while to reply properly.
>

Okay, thanks