On 22.11.2016 09:07, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:48:57AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >> On 22.11.2016 03:29, atull wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Moritz Fischer wrote: >>> >>>> Add myself as co-maintainer to fpga mgr framework. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <m...@kernel.org> >>>> Cc: Alan Tull <at...@opensource.altera.com> >>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> >>>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>> Cc: linux-f...@vger.kernel.org >>>> --- >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Lately we've fallen behind a bit on reviewing patches lately. >>> >>> Hi Moritz, >>> >>> drivers/fpga has been in the upstream kernel a year now. Most of that >>> time, traffic has been very slow. Recently we had more traffic while >>> I was travelling and moving to a new office, both cases leaving me >>> with bad network connectivity. Things will probably return to normal. >>> I appreciate your passion and all your effort reviewing stuff. I >>> don't see a need for two maintainers at this point. >> >> TBH. I think it is not a bad option. I do normally have backup person >> for all repos I do maintain. It doesn't mean that second maintainer does >> something but it has all accesses to repos you maintain. >> It means if something really happens to you (hopefully not) than this >> person can continue in this work without any delay which is not a bad >> thing. >> It is really just about talking to each other what that second person >> will do - probably just review patches as is done now. You can also >> learn from each other. >> I would like to be involved more in this but unfortunately I don't have >> enough time to do it properly. >> >> Regarding maintaining this repo. It is just standard process. Apply >> sensible things, well described and test it. And then send pull request >> to Greg based on signed tags and you are done. >> Greg should told you what should be the base which you should use for >> pull request. Someone is taking patches based on rc1 tag, someone is >> rebasing it on the final tag. > > Greg doesn't care what base you use, as long as you don't rebase > patches. What subsystem does that? I need to go yell at someone...
:-) Not sure if there is any subsystem which use this. And for my microblaze tree I do normally base patches on the top of rc7/8 or final tag but that's done mostly because I collect patches at that time. But IIRC when I started with this someone mentioned that for small number of patches this is fine. Thanks, Michal
