Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2020 17:58:54 +0200 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] gpiolib: add an ioctl() for monitoring line status changes |
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:19:59PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > wt., 7 sty 2020 o 15:45 Andy Shevchenko > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> napisał(a): > > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:44:55PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:50:28PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > Let's try to CC the actual author (Stefani Seibold) and see if the mail > > > > address works and if he can look at it. Or did you already talk to > > > > Stefani? > > > > > > > > (git blame is always my best friend in cases like this, hehe) > > > > > > Recently I started to be smarted in such cases, i.e. I run also > > > `git log --author='$AUTHOR'` to see if they are still active and > > > what address had been used lately. > > > > ...and another possibility to `git log --grep '$AUTHOR'`.
> So if some module doesn't have an official maintainer listed in > MAINTAINERS, we should still get a review from the original author?
If you asking me, I do it in a way of playing good citizen. It's not required, but may give a good feedback.
> KFIFO lives in lib/ - is there even an official maintainer for all > library helpers?
lib/ is (in most cases) under akpm@ realm.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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