Hi Detlev
On 10/17/2014 05:02 PM, Detlev Zundel wrote:
Hi,
it was a pleasure for me to meet so many of you this Monday in Düsseldorf at the ELCE. As many as 17 current custodians and 2 prospective new custodians were present at the event:
Hans de Goede - Sunxi Alexey Brodkin - ARC Marek Vasut - USB Scott Wood - NAND Joe Hershberger - Networking Anatolij Gustschin - Video Heiko Schocher - I2C Stefano Babic - ARM i.MX Stefan Roese - PowerPC 4xx, CFI flash Wolfgang Denk - PowerPC 8xx, 82xx, 85xx, 5xxx, 7xx, 74xx Lukasz Majewski - DFU, OneNAND Tom Rini - Master of the git tree Pantelis Antoniou - MMC Daniel Schwierzek - MIPS Masahiro Yamada - Uniphier, Kconfig / Kbuild Simon Glass - x86, Driver model, patman, buildman Nobuhiro Iwamatsu - SH architecture Vince Bridgers - SoCFPGA (soon) Przemyslaw Marczak - PMIC (soon)
Not for full day but + Michal Simek - Microblaze architecture, ARM Zynq
The six talks gave rise to a lot of good discussions and the presentation slides are now up on the wiki page[1].
The page is topped with a picture of the participants of the discussion round in the evening. I started adding the names of the people that gave me explicit approval to do so but I would like to extend this list somewhat further. Whenever there is an NA without a question mark, then I know the name and will fill it in when I get the approval. If there is a question mark behind it then I'm unsure and would be glad to get some help _in addition_ to the approval ;)
Feel free to identify me.
As promised, here are my notes that I took during the evening discussion - feel free to follow-up on individual items by cutting out the rest of the mail:
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- Open Discussion
** ARM core vs ARM SoC custodianship
Collection of patches should go to mainline in one bunch, rather than splitting them for every custodian repository. Individual custodians can ack parts of such a series. This should be the default - custodians should only pick up individual bits when those bits are pretty isolated.
I don't think this was an agreement to be honest. Merge early and merge often is golden rule for new SoCs. None is simply working on NAND when you don't have core SoC support or serial console. It means preferred way is to merge sensible patch series from start and then extend it to the drivers exactly how you do your SoC bringup.
If you have bigger series touching some areas you need to get ack from custodian or you can be asked to split that series.
Thanks, Michal