Re: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: Move Lenovo files into lenovo subdir

["Mark Pearson" <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>]

On Thu, May 8, 2025, at 10:27 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> 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.
>

Will do

Mark