Re: [PATCH 02/62] gpio: gpio-104-dio-48e: Use new GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Nov 07 2019 - 03:15:38 EST


On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:58 AM Vaittinen, Matti
<Matti.Vaittinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 16:23 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

> > Oh the patch bomb already dropped, hehe.
>
> I was slightly impatient ^_^;

No big deal.

> > Anyways I want one
> > big patch to apply. Please make sure it applies on the GPIO tree's
> > "devel" branch.
>
> Right. I guess I can do that.

Thanks!

> > Collect any ACKs and drop most from the CC else the driver
> > maintainers may get annoyed.
>
> My problem is that I don't know who are the driver maintainers I should
> keep and who I should drop. I don't usually know who are interested in
> which changes.

The process is not perfect, just some best effort is fine, as subsystem
maintainer I do merge mechanical patches like this across all drivers
without consent of every possible stakeholder, it's impossible to
involve everyone.

Yours,
Linus Walleij