On Thu, 8 May 2025, Mark Pearson wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2025, at 10:01 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 May 2025, Mark Pearson wrote:
> >
> >> Move all Lenovo specific files into their own sub-directory as part
> >> of clean-up exercise.
> >> Longer term goal is to break-up thinkpad_acpi to improve maintainability
> >> and perhaps share more functionality with other non thinkpad Lenovo
> >> platforms.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>
> >> ---
> >> Some questions that I didn't want to put in the commit comment:
> >> 
> >>  - I didn't know if now was a good time to propose this change. I
> >>    realise it could cause headaches for anybody with patches being
> >>    worked on.
> >
> > Don't worry too much about other changes, if you don't recall anything 
> > immediately, there likely isn't anything that significant. If we always
> > postpone useful reorganizations in fear that some hypothetical work would 
> > have to rebase, it never gets done :-).
> >
> >>    Please let me know what makes it easiest for maintainers
> >>    and other developers. If there is a particular branch that would be
> >>    better to do this against also let me know.
> >
> > Once I've merged fixes branch into for-next (I should do that at latest 
> > early next week if not already this week), it should be pretty 
> > straightforward to handle such move without conflicts.
> >
> 
> OK - thanks. If there's anything I can do to help let me know.
> 
> 
> >>  - Should I be updating the MAINTAINERS file? I'm still not sure what
> >>    the protocol there is. I'm very happy to help review anything in the
> >>    lenovo directory, but I didn't want to make assumptions.
> >
> > You should certainly update MAINTAINERS in the same patch to the new 
> > paths. If you want to make other changes, put them such as add your name 
> > into some entry or create a generic LENOVO entry, put those into own 
> > patch after the move please.
> >
> 
> OK - I'll submit a v2 with that change. Thanks for the guidance

Yes but please wait until I've done the merge so you can base v2 on top of 
it. Thanks.

> >>  - I have tested on multiple platforms but I don't have any ideapads I
> >>    can use.
> >
> > Given it's just moves file to new place, the threat of breaking something 
> > that isn't detected by simple build test, isn't that high.
> >
> Agreed - thanks for the review.
> 
> Mark
> 

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