Re: Status of Subsystems - MICROCHIP SAMA5D2-COMPATIBLE PIOBU GPIO

2019-08-23 Thread Nicolas.Ferre
Sebastian, On 20/08/2019 at 15:27, Sebastian Duda wrote: > Hello Andrei, > > in my master thesis, I'm using the association of subsystems to > maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. > During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems wit

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-22 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 02:10:13PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > > > We certainly don't talk about "inheritance" when we talk about > > maintainers and sub-maintainers. > > What's the exact definition of the term "sub-maintainer" ? > > Somebody who's maintaining some defined

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 22.08.19 11:28, Sebastian Duda wrote: Hello Sabastian, We have seen some incidents of developers sending patches to wrong recipients, missing recipients or sending patches to orphaned subsystems. Consequently, some of those patches never make it to a reviewer or a maintainer (or only after

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-22 Thread Sebastian Duda
Hi, below is a list of files explicitly mentioned twice (or more) in the MAINTAINERS file. Kind regards Sebastian On 21.08.19 14:10, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: On 20.08.19 19:15, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: Hi, There are some files which have no official owner, and there are

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-22 Thread Sebastian Duda
Hi Ted, On 20.08.19 19:15, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 03:56:24PM +0200, Sebastian Duda wrote: so the status of the files is inherited from the subsystem `INPUT MULTITOUCH (MT) PROTOCOL`? Is it the same with the subsystem `NOKIA N900 POWER SUPPLY DRIVERS` (respectively

Re: Status of Subsystems - TI BQ27XXX POWER SUPPLY DRIVER

2019-08-21 Thread Andrew F. Davis
On 8/20/19 10:00 AM, Sebastian Duda wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > in my master thesis, I'm using the association of subsystems to > maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. > During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems wit

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 20.08.19 19:15, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: Hi, There are some files which have no official owner, and there are also some files which may be modified by more than one subsystem. hmm, wouldn't it be better to alway have explicit maintainers ? I recall some discussion few weeks ago on some of

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-20 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 03:56:24PM +0200, Sebastian Duda wrote: > > so the status of the files is inherited from the subsystem `INPUT MULTITOUCH > (MT) PROTOCOL`? > > Is it the same with the subsystem `NOKIA N900 POWER SUPPLY DRIVERS` > (respectively `POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS`)?

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-20 Thread Joe Perches
gt; > maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. > > > During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems without a > > > status in the maintainers file. One of them is the subsystem `ALPS PS/2 > > > TOUCHPAD DRIVER` where you're me

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-20 Thread Pali Rohár
gt; > maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. > > > During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems without a > > > status in the maintainers file. One of them is the subsystem `ALPS PS/2 > > > TOUCHPAD DRIVER` where you're me

Status of Subsystems - TI BQ27XXX POWER SUPPLY DRIVER

2019-08-20 Thread Sebastian Duda
Hello Andrew, in my master thesis, I'm using the association of subsystems to maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems without a status in the maintainers file. One of them is the subsystem `TI BQ27XXX

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-20 Thread Sebastian Duda
subsystems without a status in the maintainers file. One of them is the subsystem `ALPS PS/2 TOUCHPAD DRIVER` where you're mentioned as reviewer. Is it intended not to mention a status for your subsystems? What is the current status of these systems? Kind regards Sebastian Duda Hi Sebastian! ALPS

Status of Subsystems - MICROCHIP SAMA5D2-COMPATIBLE PIOBU GPIO

2019-08-20 Thread Sebastian Duda
Hello Andrei, in my master thesis, I'm using the association of subsystems to maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems without a status in the maintainers file. One of them is the subsystem `MICROCHIP

Status of Subsystems - I2C/SMBUS ISMT DRIVER

2019-08-20 Thread Sebastian Duda
Hello Seth, hello Neil, in my master thesis, I'm using the association of subsystems to maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems without a status in the maintainers file. One of them is the subsystem

Re: Status of Subsystems

2019-08-20 Thread Pali Rohár
On Tuesday 20 August 2019 15:05:51 Sebastian Duda wrote: > Hello Pali, > > in my master thesis, I'm using the association of subsystems to > maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. > During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems wit

Status of Subsystems

2019-08-20 Thread Sebastian Duda
Hello Pali, in my master thesis, I'm using the association of subsystems to maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file. During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems without a status in the maintainers file. One of them is the subsystem `ALPS PS/2