Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver]

From	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver]
Date	2016-03-23 00:40 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:09:33AM +0900, Inki Dae wrote:
> In this case, someone else may send an email again like you "who is going to merge?"
> That would be why we need a maintainer.
> 
> drm panel is already managed well by Thierry Reding without such confusion. 

You don't need a maintainer for every subdirectory just because it's
a subdirectory...

Sometimes, having too many maintainers adds beaurocracy which becomes
counter-productive.  dw_hdmi seems to be adequately managed so far
without there needing to be a "DRM bridge maintainer".

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Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver Caesar Wang <caesar.upstream@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 07:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> - 2016-03-19 00:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-03-22 20:30 +0100
      Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver] Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de> - 2016-03-22 23:20 +0100
        Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com> - 2016-03-22 23:50 +0100
          Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver] Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de> - 2016-03-23 00:00 +0100
            Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com> - 2016-03-23 00:10 +0100
              Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-03-23 00:40 +0100
                Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com> - 2016-03-23 01:00 +0100
                Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-03-23 01:10 +0100
                Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> - 2016-03-23 01:50 +0100
                Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Mark yao <mark.yao@rock-chips.com> - 2016-03-23 02:10 +0100
                Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> - 2016-03-23 16:50 +0100
                Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix  Core Display Port Driver] Yakir Yang <ykk@rock-chips.com> - 2016-03-24 12:20 +0100

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