Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers for MIPS core drivers

From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
To: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>,
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers for MIPS core drivers
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:00:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e29c9643-db5c-2d89-ff56-0900091770ea@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200617223201.23259-7-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>

On 18/06/2020 00:32, Serge Semin wrote:
> Add Thomas and myself as maintainers of the MIPS CPU and GIC IRQchip, MIPS
> GIC timer and MIPS CPS CPUidle drivers.

Why will you add yourself in the MAINTAINERS file for those drivers when
git shows just one contribution for the mips-gic-timer for the timer
stability ?

git shortlog --numbered --summary drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-cps.c
     4  Paul Burton
     1  Daniel Lezcano
     1  Marcin Nowakowski
     1  Matt Redfearn
     1  Thomas Gleixner

git shortlog --numbered --summary drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
    11  Andrew Bresticker
     4  Ezequiel Garcia
     4  Matt Redfearn
     4  Paul Burton
     3  Daniel Lezcano
     3  Thomas Gleixner
     2  Linus Torvalds
     1  Alex Smith
     1  Christophe Jaillet
     1  Felix Fietkau
     1  Ingo Molnar
     1  Markos Chandras
     1  Paul Gortmaker
     1  Rafał Miłecki
     1  Richard Cochran
     1  Serge Semin
     1  Viresh Kumar
     1  YueHaibing

Also, in the cpuidle-cps.c history, there is no signed-off from Rafael,
neither an Acked-by when it was merged. That make me think the patch
went through another path than the linux-pm tree without a cpuidle
framework maintainer acknowledgement.

Perhaps it is a mistake and the patch was actually acked-by, but I would
like to remind the patches have to be acked by the upper maintainers and
being listed in the MAINTAINERS file does not give the right of override
this rule.

> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> 
> ---
> 
> Changelog v3:
> - Keep the files list alphabetically ordered.
> - Add Thomas as the co-maintainer of the designated drivers.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 2926327e4976..20532e0287d7 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -11278,6 +11278,17 @@ F:	arch/mips/configs/generic/board-boston.config
>  F:	drivers/clk/imgtec/clk-boston.c
>  F:	include/dt-bindings/clock/boston-clock.h
>  
> +MIPS CORE DRIVERS
> +M:	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> +M:	Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
> +L:	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Supported
> +F:	drivers/bus/mips_cdmm.c
> +F:	drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
> +F:	drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-cps.c
> +F:	drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c
> +F:	drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c
> +
>  MIPS GENERIC PLATFORM
>  M:	Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
>  L:	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> 

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