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From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Consolidate cpuidle functionality
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Amit Kucheria wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> wrote:
> > Maybe it's time that drivers/cpuidle gets a maintainer.  With lots of
> > discussions of scheduler changes that affect load estimation, I suspect
> > we're all going to have a bit of CPUidle work to do in the
> > not-so-distant future.
> >
> 
> I don't mean to be piling on to Len here, but Daniel Lezcano too has a
> bunch of clean ups that didn't get any maintainer review for over two
> months. He has now refreshed them for 3.3 and is getting ready to send
> them out again. We (Linaro) expect to be spending a lot of time on
> cpuidle in the future and would be glad to help review, test and
> collect patches into a tree for Linus/Andrew to pull while we wait for
> Len to respond or another maintainer to emerge.

As I advised recently, it is usually a good idea for the person/group 
who is working the most on a subsystem to simply take the lead and 
become the new maintainer.  Waiting for another maintainer to emerge 
could be compared to cowardice.


Nicolas
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