[PATCH] cpuidle: add maintainer entry
Andrew Lunn
andrew at lunn.ch
Wed Apr 24 10:23:12 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(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 61677c3..effa0f3 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2206,6 +2206,13 @@ S: Maintained
> F: drivers/cpufreq/
> F: include/linux/cpufreq.h
>
> +CPUIDLE DRIVERS
> +M: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at sisk.pl>
> +L: linux-pm at vger.kernel.org
> +S: Maintained
> +F: drivers/cpuidle/*
> +F: include/linux/cpuidle.h
> +
> CPU FREQUENCY DRIVERS - ARM BIG LITTLE
> M: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
> M: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha at arm.com>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c
> index e344b56..2378c39 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
> /*
> * Copyright 2012 Calxeda, Inc.
> *
> - * Based on arch/arm/plat-mxc/cpuidle.c:
> * Copyright 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
> * Copyright 2012 Linaro Ltd.
> *
> @@ -16,6 +15,9 @@
> *
> * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
> * this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> + *
> + * Author : Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> + * Maintainer: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> */
>
> #include <linux/cpuidle.h>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c
> index 53290e1..521b0a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
> /*
> - * arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/cpuidle.c
> - *
> * CPU idle Marvell Kirkwood SoCs
> *
> * This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> @@ -11,6 +9,9 @@
> * to implement two idle states -
> * #1 wait-for-interrupt
> * #2 wait-for-interrupt and DDR self refresh
> + *
> + * Maintainer: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
> + * Maintainer: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> */
>
For the Kirkwood part
Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
Andrew
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