Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer

[Hanjun Guo]

On 2016/7/7 21:58, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, July 07, 2016 02:40:23 PM Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > [+Sudeep]
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 02:03:17PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > > > So is this a documentation issue in which case Fu Wei can add that to
> > > > > > the file to explain its limited to ARM64. Or we could even rename the
> > > > > > file acpi_arm64_gtdt.c
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It seems a pity as the comment on this series were minors to block
> > > > > > things on a filename/location.
> > > > >
> > > > > Let me repeat what I said above:
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm mostly concerned about how (and by whom) that code is going to be
> > > > > maintained going forward.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is not about documentation, it is about responsibility.
> > > > >
> > > > > Honestly, I don't think I'm the right maintainer to apply the patch
> > > > > introducing this code and then handle bug reports regarding it and so
> > > > > on.  That has to be done by somebody else.
> > > >
> > > > I'm working on ACPI for years and upstreamed the ARM64 ACPI core
> > > > support (with lots of people's help), I'm willing to maintain the ARM64
> > > > ACPI code under drivers/acpi/ if no objections.
> > >
> > > OK
> >
> > I would ask you please to add Sudeep and myself for the ARM64 specific
> > ACPI code maintainership too.
>
> OK
>
> > > Can the ARM64-specific code go under drivers/acpi/arm64/ then, for clarity?

I'm fine with it as it helps for maintain.

Thanks
Hanjun