Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver]
Mark yao
mark.yao at rock-chips.com
Tue Mar 22 18:08:05 PDT 2016
On 2016年03月23日 08:41, 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.
>
> Dave.
>
>
>
Sure, these patches looks cool, I think it's ready to be merged, I'd
like to give a Acked-by on rockchip side.
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Mark Yao
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