Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] dt-bindings: iio: magnetometer: ak8975: convert txt format to yaml

From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>
To: Jonathan Albrieux <jonathan.albrieux@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] dt-bindings: iio: magnetometer: ak8975: convert txt format to yaml
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 18:37:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200519183705.000040e5@Huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200519164433.GA8726@ict14-OptiPlex-980>

On Tue, 19 May 2020 18:44:33 +0200
Jonathan Albrieux <jonathan.albrieux@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 07:01:37PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 04:03:54PM +0200, Jonathan Albrieux wrote:  
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:22:07PM +0200, Stephan Gerhold wrote:  
> > > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 02:43:51PM +0200, Jonathan Albrieux wrote:  
> > 
> > ...
> >   
> > > > > +maintainers:
> > > > > +  - can't find a mantainer, author is Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>  
> > > > 
> > > > Should probably add someone here, although I'm not sure who either.
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > Yep I couldn't find a maintainer for that driver..what to do in this case?  
> > 
> > Volunteer yourself!
> >   
> 
> While I'd really like to, I have to decline the offer as I currently don't have
> enought knowledge to become a maintainer :-) but thank you! (Who knows, maybe in
> a couple of year!) Now I'll make the final edits and will submit a new
> patchset soon with all the changes

Don't be so hard on yourself.  We all get thrown in at the deep end :)

Note that being a driver maintainer (or even just the binding) really
just means you get cc'd on the patches and I'll make sure you've had time
to review them if you wish.   Best of all, if you have hardware (and time)
being able to test them, that is extremely useful (whether you are
maintaining the driver or not!) 

I closely review the majority of stuff that comes through IIO and in
the case of bindings we also have Rob and co. doing an amazing job.
We have some excellent additional reviewers who review IIO stuff all the
time, some of which have reviewed your patch I see.  Without them I'd
never survive the deluge.

Of course it's entirely your decision, but I'd definitely encourage you
to give it a go.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> 
> > -- 
> > With Best Regards,
> > Andy Shevchenko
> > 
> >   
> 
> Best regards,
> Jonathan Albrieux