Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:41:58 +1000 | Subject | Re: Who is going to merge it [Was: Re: [PATCH v14 0/17] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver] | From | Dave Airlie <> |
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> >> 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.
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