[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[JD (Jiandong) Zheng]

Hello,

I am Jiandong Zheng working on BCMRING in Broadcom Canada Ltd. I am replacing Leo Chen (leochen at broadcom.com) as " ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE" and "ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER" maintainer.

Here is the patch to MAINTAINERS file in linux 2.6.34 about this change.

Signed-off-by: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>

diff -urN linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS.orig linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS
--- linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS.orig	2010-06-15 11:59:53.202128994 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS	2010-06-15 12:01:59.862277620 -0700
@@ -570,14 +570,14 @@
 S:	Maintained
 
 ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE
-M:	Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
+M:	Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
 M:	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
 L:	linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
 S:	Maintained
 F:	arch/arm/mach-bcmring
 
 ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER
-M:	Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
+M:	Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
 M:	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
 L:	linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
 S:	Maintained


Thanks,

Jiandong Zheng
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Broadcom Canada Ltd.

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[Eric Miao]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:42 AM, JD (Jiandong) Zheng
<jdzheng@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am Jiandong Zheng working on BCMRING in Broadcom Canada Ltd. I am replacing Leo Chen (leochen at broadcom.com) as " ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE" and "ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER" maintainer.
>
> Here is the patch to MAINTAINERS file in linux 2.6.34 about this change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>

Search your email address in linux-2.6 tree, no result found. This is
community, not a company. Maintainer is not assigned. Show us some
credits please?

>
> diff -urN linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS.orig linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS
> --- linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS.orig ? ? ? 2010-06-15 11:59:53.202128994 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS ? ?2010-06-15 12:01:59.862277620 -0700
> @@ -570,14 +570,14 @@
> ?S: ? ? Maintained
>
> ?ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE
> -M: ? ? Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
> +M: ? ? Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
> ?M: ? ? Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
> ?L: ? ? linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> ?S: ? ? Maintained
> ?F: ? ? arch/arm/mach-bcmring
>
> ?ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER
> -M: ? ? Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
> +M: ? ? Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
> ?M: ? ? Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
> ?L: ? ? linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> ?S: ? ? Maintained
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jiandong Zheng
> Senior Staff Software Engineer
> Broadcom Canada Ltd.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-arm-kernel mailing list
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
>

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:17 +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:42 AM, JD (Jiandong) Zheng
> <jdzheng@broadcom.com> wrote:
> > I am Jiandong Zheng working on BCMRING in Broadcom Canada Ltd.
> > I am replacing Leo Chen (leochen at broadcom.com) as
> > "ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE" and "ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER"
> >  maintainer.
> > Signed-off-by: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
> Search your email address in linux-2.6 tree, no result found. This is
> community, not a company. Maintainer is not assigned. Show us some
> credits please?

I think you're going overboard Eric.
You'll find several company addresses, some with names, in MAINTAINERS.

for instance:
$ grep M:.*support MAINTAINERS 
M:	support at lsi.com
M:	Vincent Sanders <support@simtec.co.uk>
M:	Vincent Sanders <support@simtec.co.uk>
M:	Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
M:	Support Department <support@connecttech.com>

Some others:
M:	STEricsson <STEricsson_nomadik_linux@list.st.com>
M:	"Digi International, Inc" <Eng.Linux@digi.com>
M:	HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
M:	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>
M:	linux-wimax at intel.com
M:	linux390 at de.ibm.com
M:	linux-driver at qlogic.com
M:	Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com>
M:	davinci-linux-open-source at linux.davincidsp.com

Would you prefer that broadcom go the way of intel with the
ipw2x00 or just have a faceless "linux-support at broadcom.com"?

Not me.

Welcome JD.

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[Eric Miao]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:17 +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:42 AM, JD (Jiandong) Zheng
>> <jdzheng@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> > I am Jiandong Zheng working on BCMRING in Broadcom Canada Ltd.
>> > I am replacing Leo Chen (leochen at broadcom.com) as
>> > "ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE" and "ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER"
>> > ?maintainer.
>> > Signed-off-by: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
>> Search your email address in linux-2.6 tree, no result found. This is
>> community, not a company. Maintainer is not assigned. Show us some
>> credits please?
>
> I think you're going overboard Eric.
> You'll find several company addresses, some with names, in MAINTAINERS.

Well, I'm not against a company address at all, I myself am employed and
use company address very often. And I really welcome some one to come up
and take the responsibility of some orphaned code. But the first impression
of this, to me, it's more like a Broadcom internal policy to assign someone
or not (maybe some work transition of Leo Chen). And I haven't seen much
contribution from JD so far, honestly, (but doesn't mean I don't believe
he's going to contribute a lot).

Sorry, JD, I was a bit rude on this and this is not personal at all. Nice to
know you actually, bcmring was not actively maintained since last year.
I hope we can know more about you.

>
> for instance:
> $ grep M:.*support MAINTAINERS
> M: ? ? ?support at lsi.com
> M: ? ? ?Vincent Sanders <support@simtec.co.uk>
> M: ? ? ?Vincent Sanders <support@simtec.co.uk>
> M: ? ? ?Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
> M: ? ? ?Support Department <support@connecttech.com>
>
> Some others:
> M: ? ? ?STEricsson <STEricsson_nomadik_linux@list.st.com>
> M: ? ? ?"Digi International, Inc" <Eng.Linux@digi.com>
> M: ? ? ?HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
> M: ? ? ?Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>
> M: ? ? ?linux-wimax at intel.com
> M: ? ? ?linux390 at de.ibm.com
> M: ? ? ?linux-driver at qlogic.com
> M: ? ? ?Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com>
> M: ? ? ?davinci-linux-open-source at linux.davincidsp.com
>
> Would you prefer that broadcom go the way of intel with the
> ipw2x00 or just have a faceless "linux-support at broadcom.com"?
>
> Not me.
>
> Welcome JD.
>
>
>

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[JD (Jiandong) Zheng]

Hi Eric and Joe,

It is true that I didn't contribute to kernel directly using my company's email address. My company wants to have an engineer to be the contact point and submit patch for BCMRING code and as Leo is not longer with our company I took over this responsibility from him so that any BCMRING maintenance issue or question will be directed to me firstly in Broadcom.

I'd say I am new as a *direct* kernel contributor and I have a lot to learn. I understand I need to show some credits by submitting patches, etc. and I will.

Thanks,
JD

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Miao [mailto:eric.y.miao at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:58 PM
To: Joe Perches
Cc: JD (Jiandong) Zheng; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:17 +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:42 AM, JD (Jiandong) Zheng
>> <jdzheng@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> > I am Jiandong Zheng working on BCMRING in Broadcom Canada Ltd.
>> > I am replacing Leo Chen (leochen at broadcom.com) as
>> > "ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE" and "ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER"
>> > ?maintainer.
>> > Signed-off-by: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
>> Search your email address in linux-2.6 tree, no result found. This is
>> community, not a company. Maintainer is not assigned. Show us some
>> credits please?
>
> I think you're going overboard Eric.
> You'll find several company addresses, some with names, in MAINTAINERS.

Well, I'm not against a company address at all, I myself am employed and
use company address very often. And I really welcome some one to come up
and take the responsibility of some orphaned code. But the first impression
of this, to me, it's more like a Broadcom internal policy to assign someone
or not (maybe some work transition of Leo Chen). And I haven't seen much
contribution from JD so far, honestly, (but doesn't mean I don't believe
he's going to contribute a lot).

Sorry, JD, I was a bit rude on this and this is not personal at all. Nice to
know you actually, bcmring was not actively maintained since last year.
I hope we can know more about you.

>
> for instance:
> $ grep M:.*support MAINTAINERS
> M: ? ? ?support at lsi.com
> M: ? ? ?Vincent Sanders <support@simtec.co.uk>
> M: ? ? ?Vincent Sanders <support@simtec.co.uk>
> M: ? ? ?Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
> M: ? ? ?Support Department <support@connecttech.com>
>
> Some others:
> M: ? ? ?STEricsson <STEricsson_nomadik_linux@list.st.com>
> M: ? ? ?"Digi International, Inc" <Eng.Linux@digi.com>
> M: ? ? ?HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
> M: ? ? ?Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>
> M: ? ? ?linux-wimax at intel.com
> M: ? ? ?linux390 at de.ibm.com
> M: ? ? ?linux-driver at qlogic.com
> M: ? ? ?Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com>
> M: ? ? ?davinci-linux-open-source at linux.davincidsp.com
>
> Would you prefer that broadcom go the way of intel with the
> ipw2x00 or just have a faceless "linux-support at broadcom.com"?
>
> Not me.
>
> Welcome JD.
>
>
>

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[Eric Miao]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:49 AM, JD (Jiandong) Zheng
<jdzheng@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Hi Eric and Joe,
>
> It is true that I didn't contribute to kernel directly using my company's email address. My company wants to have an engineer to be the contact point and submit patch for BCMRING code and as Leo is not longer with our company I took over this responsibility from him so that any BCMRING maintenance issue or question will be directed to me firstly in Broadcom.
>

Now we know the story :-) Welcome.

> I'd say I am new as a *direct* kernel contributor and I have a lot to learn. I understand I need to show some credits by submitting patches, etc. and I will.
>

Guess the first rule is wrap your line to less than 80 characters since
that really improves readability, and there are a lot geeks out there
using console based email clients :-)

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[JD (Jiandong) Zheng]

> Guess the first rule is wrap your line to less than 80 characters since
> that really improves readability, and there are a lot geeks out there
> using console based email clients :-)
Thanks for this!

I know it is better to use git to create patch in the future and seems 
I just need to clone linus' release tree 
(git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git) 
instead of arm linux tree (linux-arm.org/linux-2.6-stable.git) to 
make change and create patches, is this correct understanding?

Thanks,
JD

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:14:57AM -0700, JD (Jiandong) Zheng wrote:
> I know it is better to use git to create patch in the future and seems 
> I just need to clone linus' release tree 
> (git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git) 
> instead of arm linux tree (linux-arm.org/linux-2.6-stable.git) to 
> make change and create patches, is this correct understanding?

Note that the linux-arm tree is ARM Ltd's tree, and isn't a tree which
feeds directly into Linus' tree.  You can find that via
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/ but I suggest that you use
Linus' tree as a base line unless I have something which conflicts
in my tree.

I maintain three primary branches:
- master, for stuff scheduled for -rc
- devel, for stuff scheduled for the next merge window, and is unstable
  (iow, commits don't have a stable ID, so it is inadvisable to base
   work off this.)
- devel-stable, for stuff scheduled for the next merge window, where the
  commits are immutable.

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[JD (Jiandong) Zheng]

Hello,

I am Jiandong Zheng working on BCMRING in Broadcom Canada Ltd. I am replacing Leo Chen (leochen@broadcom.com) as " ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE" and "ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER" maintainer.

Here is the patch to MAINTAINERS file in linux 2.6.34 about this change.

Signed-off-by: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>

diff -urN linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS.orig linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS
--- linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS.orig	2010-06-15 11:59:53.202128994 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.34/MAINTAINERS	2010-06-15 12:01:59.862277620 -0700
@@ -570,14 +570,14 @@
 S:	Maintained
 
 ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE
-M:	Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
+M:	Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
 M:	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
 L:	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
 S:	Maintained
 F:	arch/arm/mach-bcmring
 
 ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER
-M:	Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
+M:	Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
 M:	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
 L:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
 S:	Maintained


Thanks,

Jiandong Zheng
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Broadcom Canada Ltd.