[PATCH] make mc13783 code generic

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Mark,

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:55:17PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:32:47PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:41:58AM +0100, Alberto Panizzo wrote:
> 
> > > PS: ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl said to cc all these guys:
> 
> > > Please, use always this script to decide who have to be cc'ed by default
> > > sending patches.
> 
> > No, please don't.  Better use your common sense.  get_maintainer.pl is a
> > hint at best.  E.g. Axel Lin only shows up in the list, because he
> > touched several other regulator drivers and drivers/regulator/Makefile.
> > I doubt that this is enough to imply interest.
> 
> Yeah, Axel is doing a lot of cleanups but he's not got an active
> interest in most of the code he's touching.  If you use the --nogit
> option (which is the default with current -next) get_maintainer.pl is a
> bit safer but you then need to think about people who might be actively
> interested in the driver but not listed in MAINTAINERS, and you still
> need to make sure that everyone you're seeing is interested (especially
> with multi-level maintianance).
I tried --nogit some time ago, but it still used git.  After looking
again I probably should have passed --nogit-fallback, too.

Best regards
Uwe

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