[PATCH v8 0/8] Consolidate cpuidle functionality

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Amit Kucheria wrote:

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Kevin Hilman [off-list ref] wrote:

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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