From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06708C4321E for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2022 20:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230125AbiLAUoN (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2022 15:44:13 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41738 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230015AbiLAUoJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2022 15:44:09 -0500 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6CB08BF65B; Thu, 1 Dec 2022 12:44:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition: Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From: Sender:Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition: In-Reply-To:References; bh=/K45t2IbX9ELXjn0gtlykwAOHftadWn1uInYdvD9i08=; b=a1 4vfQPJptlCvt6aK6GM/IDuPx6yfeIev/V61fUgTfWiyijiafza1o61fkuCa0/QwN1dCPDn3Fjah1u GbH1oxpn8FqUBJ1hxDfU7449x+0FwkvRg7MwNps9IkYh90m4MKrYIVfhExY10C5AgQfasCjr8ZM/Z UDC011KEIrByt5Y=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1p0qPC-00460t-6T; Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:43:38 +0100 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 21:43:38 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn To: Taras Chornyi Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Vadym Kochan , "David S. Miller" , Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Elad Nachman , Mickey Rachamim , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Taras Chornyi Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainer for Marvell Prestera Ethernet Switch driver Message-ID: References: <20221128093934.1631570-1-vadym.kochan@plvision.eu> <20221129211405.7d6de0d5@kernel.org> <96e3d5fc-ab8c-2344-3266-3b73664499f1@plvision.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <96e3d5fc-ab8c-2344-3266-3b73664499f1@plvision.eu> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 10:39:07AM +0200, Taras Chornyi wrote: > On 30.11.22 07:14, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:39:34 +0200 Vadym Kochan wrote: > > > Add Elad Nachman as maintainer for Marvell Prestera Ethernet Switch driver. > > > > > > Change Taras Chornyi mailbox to plvision. > > This is a patch, so the description needs to explain why... > > and who these people are. It would seem more natural if you, > > Oleksandr and Yevhen were the maintainers. > > > > Seriously, this is a community project please act the part. > The Marvell Prestera Switchdev Kernel Driver's focus and maintenance are > shifted from PLVision (Marvell Contractors) to the Marvell team in Israel. > In the last 12 months, the driver's development efforts have been shared > between the PLVision team and Elad Nachman from the Marvell Israel group. > > Elad Nachman is a veteran with over ten years of experience in Linux kernel > development. > He has made many Linux kernel contributions to several community projects, > including the Linux kernel, DPDK (KNI Linux Kernel driver) and the DENT > project. > Elad has done reviews and technical code contributions on Armada 3700, > Helping Pali Rohár, who is the maintainer of the Armada 3700 PCI sub-system, > as well as others in the Armada 3700 cpufreq sub-system. > In the last year and a half, Elad has internally dealt extensively with the > Marvell Prestera sub-system and has led various upstreaming sub-projects > related to the Prestera sub-system, Including Prestera sub-system efforts > related to the Marvell AC5/X SOC drivers upstreaming. This included > technical review and guidance on the technical aspects and code content of > the patches sent for review. > In addition, Elad is a member of the internal review group of code before it > applies as a PR. Hi Taras The problem we have is that all this is totally opaque to us, in netdev. The name Elad Nachman does not appear on a single patch in mainline git for the Prestera. All i can find anywhere in mainline is one patch in 2018 for stmmac. The community bases a lot of its judgements on trust. We look at contributions, be it patches, review comments, or helping others finding bugs etc, and slowly build up a level of trust. And at the moment there is nothing to base trust on. So lets wait until there are a number of merged patchsets, trust has been established, before adding this entry. It should not take too long, given his level of experience. As i've said before, you become a Maintainer by being a Maintainer. Andrew