Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: change maintainer for Rockchip drm drivers

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:42:36PM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Sandy Huang <hjc@rock-chips.com> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >     I register the account and get the drm-misc commit rights now, thanks.
> >
> >
> > 在 2017/11/24 22:51, Daniel Vetter 写道:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 09:28:59AM +0100, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Daniel,
> >>>
> >>> [somehow my email address seems to have gotten lost, so
> >>> only saw this by chance on the list itself now.
> >>> I've also re-added Sandy to the recipients]
> >>>
> >>> Am Montag, 20. November 2017, 08:48:48 CET schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 06:15:31PM +0800, Mark Yao wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For personal reasons, Mark Yao will leave rockchip,
> >>>>> can not continue maintain drm/rockchip, Sandy Huang
> >>>>> will take over the drm/rockchip.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cc: Sandy Huang <hjc@rock-chips.com>
> >>>>> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Yao <mark.yao@rock-chips.com>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Since rockchip is in drm-misc that means we need a new maintainer who
> >>>> also
> >>>> has drm-misc commit rights. Sandy doesn't yet, so if Sandy is going to
> >>>> be
> >>>> the new maintainer we need to fix that.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, Heiko, are you interested in becoming co-maintainer? With commit
> >>>> rights and all.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I always feel somewhat inadequate judging the fast-paced drm stuff, as in
> >>> the past once I got my head wrapped around something, drm always
> >>> somehow moved another mile already ;-) .
> >>>
> >>> But somewhere I read that drm-pace for big changes is supposed to slow a
> >>> bit now that atomic modesetting is done in a lot of places, so we could
> >>> give
> >>> co-maintainership for the Rockchip-drm a try - with Sandy wearing the
> >>> actual hat for big changes though ;-) .
> >>
> >>
> >> Yeah I think on the modeset side it calmed down a lot. We're still
> >> fine-tuning the helper libraries as we're figuring out better ways to
> >> write drivers. But right now I think a lot of the action is all in details
> >> not relevant for many drivers.
> >>
> >> If Sandy's ok with that too pls request an fd.o account for drm-misc and
> >> set up the tooling per our quickstart guide:
> >>
> >> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/maintainer-tools/dim.html#quickstart
> >>
> >> Thanks, Daniel
> 
> I just got a bounced mail from Mark Yao's old email address and
> noticed that linux-next still shows him as the maintainer.  It'd be
> great if we could land the change to update the MAINTAINERS file.  :-P

Patch just needs an ack from Heiko or Sean and it's good for Sandy to push
to drm-misc.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch