Re: [PATCH 1/5] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for MIPI DSI bus

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Mon Oct 27 2014 - 14:53:04 EST


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:20:21PM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> On 10/27/2014 03:17 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:48:26AM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >> index dd31933..476679c 100644
> >> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >> @@ -3071,6 +3071,13 @@ F: drivers/gpu/vga/
> >> F: include/drm/
> >> F: include/uapi/drm/
> >>
> >> +DRM MIPI DSI BUS
> >> +M: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> +L: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> +S: Supported
> >> +F: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c
> >> +F: include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h
> >
> > I really prefer when common infrastructure like this doesn't get
> > maintainer by a vendor. And I care with my intel hat on since we also ahve
> > a dsi driver that sooner or later needs to be converted to to this stuff.
> >
> > Why doesn't the usual model of merging stuff through Dave's tree, or if
> > that doesn't work well due to patch depencies, through vendor trees with
> > Dave's ack?
>
> The main intention of this patch is to be on CC in case of patches
> touching MIPI DSI bus.
> I do not want to create separate tree for such small subsystem.
>
> So if such things are not allowed please drop the patch and sorry for
> the noise.

For that stuff you can just create a mail filter that shovels everything
touching anything dsi related on dri-devel (people arleady should send all
stuff there anyway) into a special folder/mark it as important. If you
rely on people to always use get_maintainers.pl that won't work properly
anyway.

So if all you want is to notice all dsi related patches then adding a
maintainer entry isn't a good solution anyway. So best to drop this one.
-Daniel
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Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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