Re: PCI host merge strategy and maintainers

[Shawn Guo]

Hi Bjorn,

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 05:28:28PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> There are patches for exynos, imx6, mvebu, and tegra on the PCI list,
> and I want to sort out how people expect them to be merged.
> 
> My current assumption is the following:
> 
>   drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c  via PCI tree since I applied
> recent changes
>   drivers/pci/host/pci-exynos.c  via PCI tree since I applied recent changes
>   drivers/pci/host/pci-imx6.c  via Shawn Guo per [1]

A second thought on that.  I would split the patch for better separation
between driver and arch parts, so that they can go through PCI and
arm-soc tree separately without worrying about merge conflict later.

I will send you patches that we expect to go via your tree in a few
minutes.

Shawn

>   drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c  ?? unclear; Jason Cooper has merged
> some, I've merged some
>   drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c  via PCI tree per Stephen Warren [2]
> 
> Please correct anything that's wrong above, and please give me some
> guidance on mvebu.  I'm happy to go either way; I just need to know
> whether to pay attention to them :)
> 
> In addition, since I don't have time, expertise, or hardware to really
> review changes to these drivers, I'd like to have them acked by people
> who do.  My current assumption is that these are the right people:
> 
>   designware: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   exynos: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   imx6: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>   mvebu: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Lunn
> <andrew@xxxxxxx>, Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   tegra: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Again, please correct anything that's wrong.  My plan is that I won't
> apply patches to these drivers unless they're acked by the folks
> above.
> 
> Bjorn
> 
> 
> [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130916091059.GM31147@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/521CCF9B.9000004@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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