Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 10 2016 - 03:10:17 EST


On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 04:27:00PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Robin van der Gracht <robin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 May 2016 15:19:26 +0200
> > Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Robin van der Gracht
> >> <robin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > If you guys feel like auxdisplay is not the right subsystem for the
> >> > driver, and would like me to move it, please share.
> >>
> >> The best would be if you volunteer to maintain it and bring
> >> it forward.
> >
> > Thats fine. Would it suffice if I submit another patch adding myself
> > to the maintainers file?
>
> That's half of it, if Miguel does not come back then his name
> should be removed as the second step.
>
> You also need to have an idea on a path to funnel accumulated
> patches upstream to Torvalds. The recent patches to this
> subsystem were funneled by Greg, so we should ask him how
> he prefer to proceed.
>
> Greg, what do you prefer?

I don't care :)

I can keep doing this, sending stuff to Linus through my char/misc tree,
or it can go through someone else's tree, it doesn't bother me...

thanks,

greg k-h