[PATCH] cpuidle: add maintainer entry

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Wed Apr 24 09:55:45 EDT 2013


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:34:23PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Currently the cpuidle drivers are spread across the different archs.
> 
> The patch submission for cpuidle are following different path: the cpuidle core
> code goes to linux-pm, the ARM drivers goes to arm-soc or the SoC specific
> tree, sh goes through sh arch tree, pseries goes through PowerPC and
> finally intel goes through Len's tree while acpi_idle goes under linux-pm.
> 
> That makes difficult to consolidate the code and to propagate modifications
> from the cpuidle core to the different drivers.
> 
> Hopefully, a movement has initiated to put the cpuidle drivers into the
> drivers/cpuidle directory like cpuidle-calxeda.c and cpuidle-kirkwood.c
> 
> Add an explicit maintainer entry in the MAINTAINER to clarify the situation
> and prevent new cpuidle drivers to goes to an arch directory.
> 
> The upstreaming process is unchanged: Rafael takes the patches to merge them
> into its tree but with the acked-by from the driver's maintainer. So the header
> must contains the name of the maintainer.
> 
> This organization will be the same than cpufreq.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                        |    7 +++++++
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c  |    4 +++-
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c |    5 +++--
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

For the kirkwood bit:

Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>

thx,

Jason.



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