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

From	Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
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 16:50 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:41:58AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> >> So although it's small framework or just subdirectory, we would need
> >> someone who can manage the framework to avoid further confusion if
> >> necessary.
> >
> > So maybe it just doesn't need a maintainer, and maybe those the owner
> > of the bridge driver should be responsible for choosing the tree which
> > it's merged through along with updates.  That's how dw-hdmi has been
> > managed on the whole.
> >
> > It also means that the bridge driver maintainer is able to test changes
> > to the bridge driver, rather than having some over-arching bridge
> > subdirectory maintainer who doesn't have a clue whether the changes
> > work on the hardware.
> >
> > IMHO, having bridge driver authors/maintainers look after their own
> > code has many advantages.
> 
> The author just send me a pull request with acks from a git tree
> that hopefully both people agreed and tested from. No need to
> send this via another maintainer layer.

I have in the past "maintained" bridge drivers as part of the panel
tree, but I have no objections at all for this to go in via one of the
trees where it is used and can actually be tested.

Thierry

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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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