[Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Apr 26 15:36:09 UTC 2017


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:25:12AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On April 26, 2017 11:02:39 AM EDT, Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche at sandisk.com> wrote:

> >In my e-mail I was referring to the code under drivers/target and
> >drivers/md/dm*. With all due respect, I don't think that Andrew is
> >familiar
> >enough with these code bases to accept patches for these subsystems.

> I think what Dan is referring to is that Andrew used to have an
> override the maintainer role.   He'd take a patch and send out the
> usual email forcing a nak if it shouldn't go upstream.  I.e forcing at
> least a response.  You don't need more than a mechanical review to do
> this because you're challenging the maintainer to respond. 

Or to put it another way at some point if nobody else is doing any work
in the area then whoever is becomes our best expert on it.
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